{"product_id":"prosperos-daughter-9781617755323","title":"Prospero's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.\" --\u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e is a captivating recreation of Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e set on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Using Shakespeare's play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, Nunez turns an intimate eye to an unlikely bond formed between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Peter Gardner's ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients--often at the expense of their lives--he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject upon whom to continue his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos grow and come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Gardner unveils the pair's relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, \u003cem\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the finest novels of the past two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. Her two most recent books are \u003ci\u003eNot for Everyday Use\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir, which won the 2015 prestigious Hurston Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction, and the novel \u003ci\u003eEven in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, a contemporary version of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other novels are: \u003ci\u003eBoundaries\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction); \u003ci\u003eAnna In-Between\u003c\/i\u003e (PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award); \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community); \u003ci\u003eBruised Hibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e (American Book Award); \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Limbo Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (Independent Publishers Book Award); \u003ci\u003eGrace\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDiscretion\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhen Rocks Dance\u003c\/i\u003e. Nunez received her PhD from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360637292818,"sku":"9781617755323","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e97da025-bcd3-40d5-b68e-0ac5b53be52d.jpg?v=1728364563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prosperos-daughter-9781617755323","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}