by Lawrence Hill · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789046819425
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«Het negerboek» is the historical novel by Lawrence Hill, published by Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers in paperback (447 pages, in Dutch).
The novel follows Aminata Diallo, a West African girl captured at age eleven in 1755 and taken to America as a slave. Throughout her life, Aminata survives slavery and becomes a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement.
Published in 2015; this edition is the fourteenth printing and the cover bears the mention «Roman».
A work especially suited to readers of historical fiction and narratives about slavery and abolitionism.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
