Publication

1997 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads461499
  • LibraryThing207151

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR9275.S263 P47646 1997

Description

A novel about personal crisis and momentous social conflict, Caryl Phillips sixth novel tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish woman growing up in mid-twentieth-century Germany, and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth-century Venice. At the heart of these stories is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with similarity and difference, with blood. This is a novel about how we define ourselves and consequently, it is about the most dangerous and nightmarish aspects of our identity.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The nature of bloodKnopf1997-01-01

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