The nature of blood

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Pogroms,  Jews,  Persecutions,  Literature,  Romans, nouvelles,  Juifs,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Racism,  Fiction, historical, general,  Israel, fiction,  Jews, fiction

Places: Venice (Italy),  Israel,  Italy

Times: 16th century,  1948-1967