Summary
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
‘A beautiful and important book’ - The Times
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’s life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099502548 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099502542 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
A beautiful and important book
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She 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 *
Varied and authoritative and frequently beautiful * New Yorker *
An enduring, evocative read which carefully weaves fragmented, personal experiences into a layered, ambivalent narrative about slavery and the price of freedom * Irish Times *
Morrison is at the very height of her powers * Daily Mail *
For all its restraint, and its sinister stealth, A Mercy is a furious novel, a volley of anger, contempt and sorrow… the rich and seemingly casual evocative accretion of background and narrative slowly tightens its grip until the reader is utterly in thrall * Herald *
Emotions run deep and twisted in Morrison’s fiction; and their outcome is superbly traced in this powerful, flawed and genuinely creative novel * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Toni Morrison
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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