The Book of Color

by Julia Blackburn

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In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out 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.”
—The Boston Globe
  • ISBN10 1299046460
  • ISBN13 9781299046467
  • Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 29 August 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 25 February 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format eBook
  • Language English