Book description
The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and
persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain
yet absoulte necessity of human memory.
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.
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.
