by Barbara Chase-Riboud · Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg · tapa dura · ISBN 9783455004106
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«Die Frau aus Virginia» is the historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud, published by Hoffmann und Campe in 1982 in hardback (429 pages, in German).
The novel recreates the relationship between Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman on his Monticello plantation. Set in nineteenth-century Virginia, it combines romance with an indictment of slavery, hypocrisy, and the contradictions of American society.
Original title: Sally Hemings. Originally published in 1977, the work received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1979.
Intended for readers of historical fiction and for those interested in the history of the United States and its racial contradictions.
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an American and French visual artist, sculptor, novelist, and poet.
