ALSO BY BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD
Poetry
From Memphis & Peking
Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra
Untitled: Collected Poems (forthcoming)
Fiction
Sally Hemings: A Novel
Valide: A Novel of the Harem
Echo of Lions: A Novel of the Amistad
Roman Egyptien (in French)
The President’s Daughter
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2004
Copyright © 2003 by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to people, locations,
and events are inspired by history or are inventions of the author’s imagination.
Apart from historical figures, any resemblance between these characters
and actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Chase-Riboud, Barbara.
Hottentot Venus: a novel / by Barbara Chase-Riboud.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Baartman, Sarah—Fiction. 2. Women—South Africa—Fiction.
3. South Africans—Europe—Fiction. 4. South Africa—Fiction.
5. Exploitation—Fiction. 6. Women, Black—Fiction.
7. Racism—Fiction. 8. Europe—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H336H68 2003
811’.54—dc21
2003048907
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