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Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
Marina Warner
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Description for Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
Paperback. Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores the intertwined histories of the Everard family and the imaginary Caribbean island where Ariel, Caliban, and his mother, the healer and dyer of indigo, Sycorax once lived.
Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores the intertwined histories of the Everard family and the imaginary Caribbean island where Ariel, Caliban, and his mother, the healer and dyer of indigo, Sycorax once lived.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099154518
SKU
V9780099154518
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About Marina Warner
Marina Warner spent her early years in Cairo, and was educated at a convent in Berkshire, and then in Brussels and London, before studying modern languages at Oxford. She is an internationally acclaimed cultural historian, critic, novelist and short story writer. From her early books on the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc, to her bestselling studies of fairy tales ... Read more
Reviews for Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
A complex, glittering book
The Times
An extraordinary imaginative achievement
Times Literary Supplement
Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent
Independent on Sunday
Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience ... Read more
The Times
An extraordinary imaginative achievement
Times Literary Supplement
Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent
Independent on Sunday
Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience ... Read more