The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

The Salt Roads

Nalo Hopkinson

Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a desperate search to discover herself and inhabits the minds of such women as a the seductive mistress of nineteenth-century poet Charles Baudelaire and a Nubian prostitute on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 300 A.D. 30,000 first printing.

– The Salt Roads was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53302-5) in 11/03 and received rave reviews.- Nalo Hopkinson made her debut with Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), winning the Aspect First Novel Contest and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.- The author’s previous book, Skin Folk (Aspect, 2001), won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, was named Recommended Fiction for 2002 by Black Issues Book Review, and was named a New York Times Best book of the Year. Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (Aspect, 2000), a New York Times Recommended Book of Summer 2000, received an Honorable Mention for the Casa de las Americas Prize. It was a finalist for the Nubula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award.


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Details

ISBN 9780446677134
Genre Speculative Fiction; Black Interest
Publication Date 01-Nov-04
Publisher Warner
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 409
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Fiction
BookID 10969

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