Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. When 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. 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.
writes novels that resound with thunder and fury." -Essence "A story about the transformative power of love.Readers are sure to enjoy the journey." -Black Issues Book Review Prospero's Daughter is a captivating recreation of Shakespeare'sThe Tempest set on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists.
exquisite retelling ofThe Tempest." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Absorbing. "The very title of Elizabeth Nunez's gripping and richly imagined sixth novel,Prospero's Daughter, distances her work from both the originalTempest (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." -New York Times Book Review "Masterful.simply wonderful.
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