Prospero's Daughter

Name: Prospero's Daughter
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Nunez
ISBN: 9781602831865

Author: Elizabeth Nunez

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 04/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez is the author of various novels, including Discretion, Bruised Hibiscus, Grace, and Prospero’s Daughter. Born in Trinidad, Nunez is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, as well as the winner of an American Book Award. She lives in Amityville, New York.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

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“Part romance, part detective story, part searing social critique, Nunez’s fiction, with its lush, lyric cadences and whirlwind narrative, casts a seductive spell.” O, The Oprah Magazine

“Gripping and richly imagined.” New York Times Book Review

“[It has] strong themes and dramatic ironies…readers will find her love story—which has a refreshingly happy ending—very sensitively told.” Publishers Weekly

“Nunez has crafted a beautiful, layered novel that echoes both The Tempest and Heart of Darkness.” Booklist

“Nunez is in top form with this ambitious interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Library Journal

“Prospero’s Daughter is a resounding success, one that should definitely establish Nunez’s importance in English...literature.” Harvard Review

“Compelling and suspenseful. An unpredictable story adds excitement…Full of flavor…Well-plotted, structured to near perfection, and savory.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)