New York:: Ballantine,, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear to dj at top of spine). First printing. Sixth book by this award winning author, a retelling of The Tempest set on a small Caribbean Island off the coast of Trinidad at the height of the tension between the native population and the British colonists..316 pp.

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Elizabeth Nunez is the author of Grace, Discretion (short-listed for the 2003 Hurston Wright Legacy Award for Fiction), Beyond the Limbo Silence, Bruised Hibiscus (winner of an American Book Award), and When Rocks Dance. She was born in Trinidad and emigrated to the United States after secondary school. Nunez is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College. She co-founded the National Black Writers Conference, is executive producer of the acclaimed television series Black Writers in America (nominated for a 2004 NY Emmy), and now chairs the PEN American Center Open Book committee. Named Author of the Year by the Go On Girl Book Club for 2002, Nunez is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies and the Paden Institute, the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, and the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Black Business. She lives in Amityville, New York. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 70014
Title: PROSPERO'S DAUGHTER.
Author: Nunez, Elizabeth
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear to dj at top of spine)
Jacket Condition: near fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0345455355
ISBN 13: 9780345455352
Publisher: Ballantine,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2006)
Keywords: african american literature, women authors, trinidad, leper colony, rape,
Bookseller catalogs: Caribbean literature and history;

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