Sacred Hunger

Author: Barry Unsworth

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  • : 29.99 NZD
  • : 9780140119930
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.449964
  • : September 2008
  • : 197mm X 129mm X 40mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : 8-Nov
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  • : English
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  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780140119930
9780140119930

Description

Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.

Awards

Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1992.

Author description

Barry Unsworth won the Booker Prize with SACRED HUNGER and has been shortlisted for PASCALI'S ISLAND and MORALITY PLAY. He is author of many other acclaimed novels. Originally from Durham he now lives in Italy.