The Nature of Blood
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9780307488596
Description: A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.From the Hardcover edition.