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Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."—David Halberstam 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
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Release date: 17 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 0393311147 | ISBN-13: 9780393311143
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Release date: 17 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 0393311147 | ISBN-13: 9780393311143
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