title: The Nature of Blood
author:  Caryl Phillips 
description: Like his earlier works, the novels <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679736891/${0}"><i>Cambridge</i></a> and <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679757945/${0}"><i>Crossing the River</i></a>, Caryl Phillips's <i>The Nature of Blood</i> is made up of several stories that take place over a large span of time. The result of this innovative technique is that themes, characters, and incidents resonate against one another, and history is seen not as a straight line but as a circle or a spiral. In one story, a Jewish man abandons his family to fight for the state of Israel. In another, the Moor Othello, another soldier who has left his family, comes to Venice. There, he visits the Jewish ghetto and finds himself astounded that "they should choose to live in this manner." Phillips's most daring feat in this provocative and thoughtful novel, however, may be to write in the first person about a Holocaust survivor just after World War II.
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  #  Born of Blood
  
  
  Book 3 of The Valdir Chronicles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  R.A. Lewis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #  Born of Blood
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
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  Copyright 2019 © RA Lewis
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover by Jennifer Stevens for Down Write Nuts
  
  
  
  
  
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  #  Also by R.A. Le