ONE BOOK, ONE COMMUNITY 2010

NALIS is pleased to announce that Prospero’s Daughter, written Dr. Elizabeth Nunez, has been selected for this year’s One Book, One Community Reading Project.  The 5th edition of NALIS’ One Book, One Community (OBOC) Nationwide Reading Project will be launched on Wednesday 14th April, 2010 at 10:00 a.m., National Library, Port of Spain. 

Prospero's Daughter was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Novel of the Year for Black Issues Book Review.  The book, set in Trinidad, explores race and class conflicts in 1960s Trinidad. Dr. Nunez does this by retelling Shakespeare's play “The Tempest”.    Washington Post says of Prospero’s Daughter, “Vivid prose… The novel’s setting is wonderfully drawn… Nunez uses the Trinidad setting to great thematic effect.”  The New York Times Book Review wrote, “Gripping and richly imagined; Nunez is a master at pacing and plotting.”  Black Issues Book Review summarized the Prospero’s Daughter as such, “A story about the transformative power of love… Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.”

Dr. Nunez has written six other critically acclaimed novels.  Her most recent novel, Anna In-Between was released September 2009.  According to Ibrahim Ahmad, senior editor Akashic Books, this novel received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal and was given a laudable review in the New York Times (9/6/09) and selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice.  Her other novels include: When Rocks Dance, Beyond the Limbo Silence, Bruised Hibiscus, Discretion and Grace.  Discretion was short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award and Beyond the Limbo Silence was awarded the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award in the multi-cultural category.

Dr Nunez, who currently resides in New York, is absolutely thrilled that NALIS has selected her book.

For more information please contact the Public Relations and Marketing Department of NALIS at 624-4466 ext 2324/2327.