The Nature of Blood

Caryl Phillips

Sep 2009 · Verkauft von Vintage

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A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.

Autoren-Profil

Caryl Phillips is the author of five previous novels, The Final Passage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, and Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize). Awards he has received include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He divides his time between London and New York City.