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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Hottentot Venus Author: Barbara Chase-Riboud Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 08-11-09 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Barbara Chase-Riboud is an award-winning poet, novelist, scholar, and sculptor. Hottentot Venus, a 2004 BCALA Literary Award winner, focuses on Sarah Blaartman, an African tribewoman who, because of her prominent sexual characteristics, was paraded as a freak before audiences in England and Paris. This mesmerizing novel reflects the racism and cruelty of turn-of-the-century Eurocentric culture, but it also reveals Sarah's remarkable strength of spirit. ©2003 Barbara Chase-Riboud; (P)2004 Recorded Books, LLC Critic Reviews: "In 1810, Sarah Baartman sailed willingly from her home in South Africa to England with her English husband, believing that fame awaite