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The Book of Colour

Julia Blackburn

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#3228 of 8,085 books · #488 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (1996).

The Book of Colour is about childhood, about madness, about the fear of miscegenation - and about a pig. 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. The book was shortlisted for The Orange Prize 1996.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781448190898
Topics
Family history and heritageRacial prejudiceMental illness

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