Toronto: Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful full-color illustrated edition of this award-winning novel by this Canadian author, originally published in 2007. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and nominated in the United States (where it appeared under the title "Someone Knows My Name") for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. Illustrated with more than 150 images - photographs, early maps and documents, archival photos, period paintings and never before-published pages from the original handwritten ledger from which the novel draws its name. This is the story of Aminata Diallo, abducted from her West African village and enslaved on indigo plantation in South Carolina, to New York City, and after she has a chance to enter her name in the British military ledger known as the Book of Negroes to Canada and the harsh climate of Nova Scotia, and eventually back to the coast of Sierra Leone and to London. Includes a new introduction to this edition by the author, as well as an historical note and suggestions for further reading. A large and heavy book, richly produced, with wide margins, and illustrated map endpapers in addition to the illustrations throughout. xv, 510 pp. ISBN: 978-1554686957.