Indigo Or Mapping The Waters

Nov 8, 2025 12:56 PM

Author:Marina Warner

Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores the intertwined histories of the Everard family and the imaginary Caribbean island where Ariel, Caliban, and his mother, the healer and dyer of indigo, Sycorax once lived.

Reviews

A complex, glittering book

—— The Times

An extraordinary imaginative achievement

—— Times Literary Supplement

Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent

—— Independent on Sunday

Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience of the Caribbean with a powerful feminine myth-making

—— Independent

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