New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1997.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Novel transcending time and place - as the stories of a young Jewish woman in 20th century Germany becomes intertwined with that of an African general hired by the Doge in 16th century Venice - by this award-winning and highly praised Afro-Caribbean writer. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1997. 212 pp.

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A novel about personal crisis and momentous social conflict, Caryl Phillips sixth novel tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish woman growing up in mid-twentieth-century Germany, and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth-century Venice. At the heart of these stories is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with similarity and difference, with blood. This is a novel about how we define ourselves and consequently, it is about the most dangerous and nightmarish aspects of our identity.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 75270
Title: THE NATURE OF BLOOD
Author: Phillips, Caryl
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in fine dust jacket.
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679454705
ISBN 13: 9780679454700
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1997.
Bookseller catalogs: African American Literature;

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