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      The Nature of Blood

      by Caryl Phillips
      Published
      May 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.

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      Historical Literary

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      First Edition May 1997 Knopf ISBN13 9780679454700 ISBN10 0679454705
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      May 1997 Random House (Canada) ISBN13 9780676970500 ISBN10 0676970508
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