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Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)

Barry Unsworth

Paperback | Pages: 630 pages

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Original Title:	Sacred Hunger
ISBN:	0393311147 (ISBN13: 9780393311143)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sacred Hunger #1
Characters:	William Kemp, Erasmus Kemp
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1992)

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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.

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Title	:	Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Author	:	Barry Unsworth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 630 pages
Published	:	November 17th 1993 by W.W. Norton Company (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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Sacred Hunger is one of those books that stays on your mind long after youve finished it. Since Unsworth won the Pulitzer for this book I expected a lot and I wasnt disappointed. The writing is lovely and the philosophy is complicated and thought provoking. Its set in the mid eighteenth century. Its about an English merchant who attempts to make a lot of money by purchasing trapped African people and sell them in the English colonies.Most of the action is nightmarish. The main characters are two

Historical novels are "a somewhat gimcrack genre not exactly jammed with greatness" according to James Wood in the New Yorker. (Where he is, however, exceeding polite to Ms Mantel.)I can only imagine that this is one of those rarities whose existence he grudgingly allows. It is magnificent. It was magnificent the first time I read it all those years ago when it shared the Booker prize with The English Patient, and it retains its magnificence now. A re-read is always a new experience: this time

Sacred Hunger is an astounding novel. It is the best book Ive read in a long time; it is also, by far, the most devastating (which is saying something, given some of the Bookers Ive read recently Schindlers Ark and The Bone People coming to mind). I have been reluctant to write this review because Ive found it difficult to review books that I love, and Sacred Hunger falls into that category. I wasnt sure that Id find another Booker that I love quite as much as The Remains of the Day and The

This is a very good novel about the slave trade, but what takes it beyond simply a retelling of the brutality of capturing and buying slaves is the on-board rebellion that occurs during the Middle Passage and the makeshift society that the seamen and slaves fashion afterward.

A page turner is a good description. Good versus evil and of course evil wins. Paris a disgraced doctor due to a pamphlet he wrote questioning Christianitys 6000 year time line. He is given a job on the Liverpool Merchant a newly built slave ship by his Uncle. Paris cousin Erasmus the son of Kemp has a chip on his shoulder from when they were children and Paris lifted him up from an incoming tide while he was building a dam. Bizarre. Erasmus also is going through a courtship with the lovely

In 1992 the Man Booker prize was shared for the first time. Now everybody remembers The English Patient but fewer remember the book that tied with it, which is a shame because it is a wonderful book.Sacred Hunger opens with Erasmus Kemps father showing him the construction of his ship, the LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. His father loves watching over the building of the ship and explaining techniques and parts to his son. However, due to the war with France, and the economy, his father is badly in debt,

From the book jacket: A stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the sacred hunger to expand its empire and its profits, England entered fully into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. This book, which won the Man Booker Award in 1992, 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