The Nature of Blood, Caryl Phillips
The Nature of Blood, Caryl Phillips
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The Nature of Blood

Author: Caryl Phillips

Narrator: Yelena Schmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman, Matthew Lloyd Davies, various narrators, Julian Elfer, Kevin Kenerly, Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2022

Synopsis

In this ambitious novel, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europe’s obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone she loves. Her story is interwoven with a cast of characters from both the present and past: her uncle Stephan, Othello the Moorish general, three Jews in fifteenth-century Venice, and an Ethiopian Jew struggling for acceptance in contemporary Israel. Tracing these characters through disparate lands and centuries, Phillips creates an unforgettable group portrait of individuals overwhelmed by the force of European tribalism.

About Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and his other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York.

About Matthew Lloyd Davies

Matthew Lloyd Davies is a veteran actor, audiobook narrator, and director with experience in radio. A regular with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed internationally and in award-winning television shows and films. He prides himself on his ability to tell a story and holds a master's degree in directing.

About Julian Elfer

Julian Elfer is an award-winning, classically trained British actor with extensive stage experience. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the British Academy at Oxford University, where he studied with the likes of Derek Jacobi, Fiona Shaw, and Alan Rickman. Elfer currently resides and acts in New York City.

About Kevin Kenerly

Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.

About Elizabeth Knowelden

Elizabeth Knowelden is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator who has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As an actress, she trained in London at the Webber Douglas Academy where she received a Sir Laurence Olivier Commendation. Her acting credits include theater, musicals, and national tours in the United Kingdom. Also a film actress, she has participated in BAFTA’s Newcomers Program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2

My fifth Caryl Phillips book. He’s fast becoming a favorite. Phillips is a surprising writer. His gifts lie in achronological narrative sequencing—the author seems to despise the chronological—deft POV shifts, shrewd omission, a prose style of great dignity, and (at times) stark brevity. This starts......more

Goodreads review by Silencia

This fucked me up in the best way. I love the writing style, and even though we saw so little of each of them, I felt really intensely connected to the characters. Especially Eva. God, Eva. I mean, it's about the Holocaust in some ways, and in other ways just about the nature of racism and evil and a......more

Goodreads review by Carla

Num livro pouco coeso, consegui retirar "alimento" da história de Eva. (Não sei porque ali está a história paralela do General Africano ao serviço da República de Veneza)......more

Goodreads review by Laura ♡

This was so hard, emotionally and narratively speaking imo 💔......more

Goodreads review by Elena

THE NATURE OF BLOOD was written by Caryl Phillips, a West Indian author raised in England, who has written many texts, fiction and nonfiction, which engage with the subject of diasporic postcolonialism. In his novels, Jews and Blacks appear as co-sufferers of the dark side of Modernity. In this ambit......more

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