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This is an excellent piece of fiction based on history. Unsworth puts the reader in the middle of the slave trade in the mid to late 1700's. In the process he touches on many varied themes including man's inhumanity to man and Utopian societies.
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Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Barry Unsworth
Conch, January 24, 2010
This is an excellent piece of fiction based on history. Unsworth puts the reader in the middle of the slave trade in the mid to late 1700's. In the process he touches on many varied themes including man's inhumanity to man and Utopian societies.(2 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)