Prospero's Daughter

The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez's captivating novel Prospero's Daughter, a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

“Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence

Prospero’s Daughter is a captivating recreation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest set on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Using Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and po...