The nature of blood / Caryl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Caryl

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Fiction.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

History.

Pogroms.

Italy.

Israel.

Pogroms--Fiction.

Israel--History--1948-1967--Fiction.

Venice (Italy)--History--Fiction.

Venice (Italy).

Italy--History--16th century--Fiction.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 1998.

Summary:

A German Jewish girl whose life and death are shaped 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 the sixteenth-century Venetian ghetto, trapped both literally and figuratively by rabid prejudice...Othello, newly arrived in Venice...a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel: these are the people whose stories fill The Nature of Blood and who, despite their clear differences, share the weight of memory as burden and sustenance. Their individual voices - delineated with masterful precision - speak out of profound depths of feeling about their worlds and their experiences of persecution, courage, and betrayal. But they move beyond the particulars of their own stories as well, their voices twining in an intricate narrative fabric that tells the larger, timeless story of ethnic hatred and racism; of the powers of faith and the shock of its loss; of the cruel patterns of repetition that mar humankind's history, and the crystalline significance of each individual within its sweep.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1997.

ISBN:

0679454705

9780679454700

9780679776758

0679776753

OCLC:

39756770

Online:

Klappentext