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Prospero's Daughter

Elizabeth Nunez
3.5
(4)
Duration
12h 30m
Year
2007
Language
English

About

Peter Gardner, a white scientist from England, is exiled after performing dangerous experiments on patients. He flees with his beautiful young daughter, Virginia, to the Caribbean, where he raises her in isolation among few people-all natives. One of those natives is Carlos, a young boy of mixed-race. Virginia and Carlos develop a forbidden friendship, which later blooms into a love that binds them above all cultural, racial, and paternal resistance. This is a touching love story and a haunting coming-of-age tale.

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"Nunez has crafted a beautiful, layered novel that echoes both The Tempest and Heart of Darkness."
Booklist
"[It has] strong themes and dramatic ironies…readers will find her love story-which has a refreshingly happy ending-very sensitively told."
Publishers Weekly

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