Book Of Colour

A Family Memoir

AvJulia Blackburn

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

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'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness. This first novel is a powerfully and cleverly written expurgation of personal feelings, drawing the reader into a landscape like that of a Dali painting' - Eileen Cowey, Scotland on SundayThe Book of Colour is about childhood, about madness, about the fear of miscegenation - and about a pig. It establishes Julia Blackburn as one of the most original English writers since Chatwin. It was shortlisted for The Orange Prize 1996.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-31
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448190898
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The Three of Us won the J. R. Ackerley Award, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, and Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.

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"Her narrative vibrates with symbolism and portent. Every event, every encounter, every object shimmers with talismanic power" -- Michiko Kakutani New York Times "As a book about the partiality of family history and the peculiar spells of memory, The Book of Colour could hardly be bettered" Observer "A brilliant fantasy of bizarre and magical imagination" -- Mary Wesley Daily Mail