The nature of blood /
Caryl Phillips.
- 1st ed.
- London : Faber & faber, 1997.
- 213 p ; 22 cm.
Intertwines four narratives of racial and ethnic persecution involving Othello, a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel, a girl facing the Holocaust in World War II Germany, and the Jews of a fifteenth-century Venetian ghetto.