num_pages: 175
description: 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Book of Color
titlecomplete: The Book of Color
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Pantheon