The Book of Color: A Novel - Hardcover

Blackburn, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679439838 ISBN 13: 9780679439837

Publisher: Pantheon, 1995

Synopsis

In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."--Boston Globe.
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From the Inside Flap:

19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."--Boston Globe.

About the Author:

Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction, Charles Waterton, The Emperor’s Last Island, and Daisy Bates in the Desert, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679439838
• ISBN 13: 9780679439837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175