Prospero's Daughter - Hardcover

Nunez, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345455355 ISBN 13: 9780345455352

Publisher: One World, 2006

Synopsis

Exiled from England for performing dangerous experiments on his patients, Peter Gardner flees to the Caribbean with his beautiful young daughter, Virginia, raising her in isolation except for the a few natives, including Carlos, a young boy of mixed race with whom Virginia develops a forbidden friendship that blooms into love. 12,000 first printing.

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Review

Advance praise for Prospero's Daughter
"ŬAn¨ exquisite retelling of 'The Tempest'. . . . Masterful. . . . Simply wonderful."
-Kirkus Review (starred review)
"ŬElizabeth¨ Nunez critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest, set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. . . . ŬIt has¨ strong themes and dramatic ironies. Readers will find her love story-which has a refreshingly happy ending-very sensitively told."
-Publishers Weekly
"A stunning achievement. With fluid, vivid writing, Elizabeth Nunez guides the reader through a magical and dangerous landscape. Beneath the unrelenting tropical sun, against the currents and tides of the sea, a Caribbean island of secrets and shadows is laid bare. This is a novel of thrilling twists and turns. In painterly prose, Nunez unveils a landscape tempered by colonialism, unmasks the colonizer, and lifts the curtain that has been drawn across history."
-Michelle Cliff, author of Free Enterprise

"Like Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Prospero's Daughter is a classic take on an enduring classic. Elizabeth Nunez takes us on a journey through the heart and murky underbelly of forbidden love. This is probably her finest work to date."
-Colin Channer, author of Passing Through

"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for Prospero's Daughter

"[An] exquisite retelling of 'The Tempest'. . . . Masterful. . . . Simply wonderful."
-Kirkus Review (starred review)

"[Elizabeth] Nunez critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest, set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. . . . [It has] strong themes and dramatic ironies. Readers will find her love story-which has a refreshingly happy ending-very sensitively told."
-Publishers Weekly

"A stunning achievement. With fluid, vivid writing, Elizabeth Nunez guides the reader through a magical and dangerous landscape. Beneath the unrelenting tropical sun, against the currents and tides of the sea, a Caribbean island of secrets and shadows is laid bare. This is a novel of thrilling twists and turns. In painterly prose, Nunez unveils a landscape tempered by colonialism, unmasks the colonizer, and lifts the curtain that has been drawn across history."
-Michelle Cliff, author of Free Enterprise
"Like Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Prospero's Daughter is a classic take on an enduring classic. Elizabeth Nunez takes us on a journey through the heart and murky underbelly of forbidden love. This is probably her finest work to date."
-Colin Channer, author of Passing Through
"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for Prospero's Daughter
"[An] exquisite retelling of 'The Tempest'. . . . Masterful. . . . Simply wonderful."
-Kirkus Review (starred review)
"[Elizabeth] Nunez critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest, set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. . . . [It has] strong themes and dramatic ironies. Readers will find her love story-which has a refreshingly happy ending-very sensitively told."
-Publishers Weekly
"A stunning achievement. With fluid, vivid writing, Elizabeth Nunez guides the reader through a magical and dangerous landscape. Beneath the unrelenting tropical sun, against the currents and tides of the sea, a Caribbean island of secrets and shadows is laid bare. This is a novel of thrilling twists and turns. In painterly prose, Nunez unveils a landscape tempered by colonialism, unmasks the colonizer, and lifts the curtain that has been drawn across history."
-Michelle Cliff, author of Free Enterprise

"Like Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Prospero's Daughter is a classic take on an enduring classic. Elizabeth Nunez takes us on a journey through the heart and murky underbelly of forbidden love. This is probably her finest work to date."
-Colin Channer, author of Passing Through

"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for Prospero s Daughter
[An] exquisite retelling of The Tempest . . . . Masterful. . . . Simply wonderful.
Kirkus Review (starred review)
[Elizabeth] Nunez critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest, set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. . . . [It has] strong themes and dramatic ironies. Readers will find her love story which has a refreshingly happy ending very sensitively told.
Publishers Weekly
A stunning achievement. With fluid, vivid writing, Elizabeth Nunez guides the reader through a magical and dangerous landscape. Beneath the unrelenting tropical sun, against the currents and tides of the sea, a Caribbean island of secrets and shadows is laid bare. This is a novel of thrilling twists and turns. In painterly prose, Nunez unveils a landscape tempered by colonialism, unmasks the colonizer, and lifts the curtain that has been drawn across history.
Michelle Cliff, author of Free Enterprise

Like Zadie Smith s On Beauty, Prospero s Daughter is a classic take on an enduring classic. Elizabeth Nunez takes us on a journey through the heart and murky underbelly of forbidden love. This is probably her finest work to date.
Colin Channer, author of Passing Through

"From the Hardcover edition.""

About the Author

Elizabeth Nunez is the author of Grace, Discretion (short-listed for the 2003 Hurston Wright Legacy Award for Fiction), Beyond the Limbo Silence, Bruised Hibiscus (winner of an American Book Award), and When Rocks Dance. She was born in Trinidad and emigrated to the United States after secondary school. Nunez is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College. She co-founded the National Black Writers Conference, is executive producer of the acclaimed television series Black Writers in America (nominated for a 2004 NY Emmy), and now chairs the PEN American Center Open Book committee. Named Author of the Year by the Go On Girl Book Club for 2002, Nunez is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies and the Paden Institute, the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, and the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Black Business. She lives in Amityville, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: One World
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0345455355
• ISBN 13: 9780345455352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304