The Colour of Blood
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The Colour of Blood, published in 1987, is a novel
by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore
about a Cardinal
in an unnamed East European country who finds himself caught in the middle of an escalating revolution. A political thriller, it won the Sunday Express Book of the Year prize in 1987 and was also nominated for the Booker prize.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
about a Cardinal
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:* Cardinal , a senior official of the Catholic Church- Animals :* Cardinal or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds* Paroaria, a South American genus of birds...
in an unnamed East European country who finds himself caught in the middle of an escalating revolution. A political thriller, it won the Sunday Express Book of the Year prize in 1987 and was also nominated for the Booker prize.