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Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
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"A complex, glittering book" (The Times)
"An extraordinary imaginative achievement" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent" (Independent on Sunday)
"Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience of the Caribbean with a powerful feminine myth-making" (Independent)
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"An extraordinary imaginative achievement" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent" (Independent on Sunday)
"Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience of the Caribbean with a powerful feminine myth-making" (Independent)
A strikingly original interpretation of the historical and imaginative landscape of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 070113531X
- ISBN 13 9780701135317
- BindingMisc. Supplies
- Edition number1
- Number of pages402
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