Nature of Blood (which I've read)
Cambridge
couple others by him.

Deep, complex, multi-layered writing, mostly on race relations and associated matters. Mostly with historical context. Caribbean native, educated in England, I think he lives in NY now.

In Nature of Blood, he weaves three (or four) stories: the story of a Jewish family in prewar Germany, a British soldier who falls for a holocaust survivor after the liberation of a camp, a man who travels to Israel to help build the new nation and meets an Ethiopian girl, and a Moorish general who goes to a new job in Venice in the 16th century or so (a thinly disguised narrative of Othello). Fascinating, heady stuff which he expertly ties together into a powerful study of the racism (to overgeneralize it).

It's not light reading. But well worth it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679454705/103-7127800-7982218

RED

"Sounds like Zen," I said. "Interesting
enough in itself as a system of
thought, but not much
good for explaining anything."
© Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up
Bird Chronicle.