by David Dabydeen · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099288725
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«A Harlot's Progress» is the historical fiction novel by David Dabydeen, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Starting from William Hogarth's famous 1732 engraving, the novel gives voice to its characters, above all a Black slave, here London's oldest inhabitant. Forced to recount his life to abolitionists in exchange for charity, he refuses to offer the expected litany of grievances and weaves a tale of myths, half-truths and fantasies that recreates his native Africa and eighteenth-century London in a poetic and dazzling way.
Novel shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1999. Vintage published this paperback edition on 4 May 2000; the work had originally appeared in 1999.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in slavery, memory and the reinvention of the past, as well as in Hogarth's pictorial work.
