{"product_id":"9781617755422","title":"Prospero's Daughter: A Novel","description":"\"The very title of Elizabeth Nunez's gripping and richly imagined sixth novel, \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter,\u003c\/i\u003e distances her work from both the original \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e (in which the daughter, Miranda, is perhaps the least developed of all Shakespearean heroines) and from the many postcolonial reactions to the play...Nunez, who is a master at pacing and plotting, explores the motivations behind Caliban's outburst, hatching an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful...simply wonderful...[an] exquisite retelling of \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Absorbing...[Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story about the transformative power of love...Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating recreation of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the finest novels of the past two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139313713392,"sku":"9781617755422","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617755422_p0.jpg?v=1769904807","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617755422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}