The Book of Color

In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural — or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory." — Boston Globe.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Author
• Julia Blackburn

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 175

• Publisher
• Pantheon

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780679439837

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 1995