Synopsis
Winner of the Booker Prize 1992
A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ.
This brilliantly suspenseful period piece about the slave trade in the 18th century is also a meditation on how avarice dehumanizes the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780140119930
- Number of pages: 640
- Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 38 mm
- Weight: 445g
- Languages: English