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The Nature of Blood

BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF19.90

Description

A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-952057-3
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/05/2008
Pages224 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 199 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight186 g
Article no.5098691
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.17627275
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.