The Book of Color

In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world?

"A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."
--The Boston Globe

Author: Julia Blackburn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780679758372
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/08/1996 pg. 36
Publishers Weekly 07/01/1996

About the Author
Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction, Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, and Daisy Bates in the Desert, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in England.