A Mercy by Toni Morrison
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes irrevocably. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck.
Toni Morrison makes me believe in GodShe makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian *
A beautiful and important book * The Times *
Powerful, elemental... The issues Morrison explores go to the root of what humanity is. They could not be more important * Guardian *
Left me trembling at the sheer brilliance of its storytelling and the unassailable dignity of its purpose * Evening Standard *
So enthralling that you'll want to read it more than once * Sunday Times *
A beautiful and important book * The Times *
Powerful, elemental... The issues Morrison explores go to the root of what humanity is. They could not be more important * Guardian *
Left me trembling at the sheer brilliance of its storytelling and the unassailable dignity of its purpose * Evening Standard *
So enthralling that you'll want to read it more than once * Sunday Times *
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099502548 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099502542 |
| Title | A Mercy |
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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