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In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out 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.”
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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.
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Biographer Blackburn makes her fictional debut with a multigenerational tale concerning race, madness and identity.
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679758372
- ISBN 13 9780679758372
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- Number of pages192
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