Sula

Extravagantly beautiful… Enormously, achingly alive… A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter * New York Times *Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers… One of the most compelling writers at work today * The Times *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 *In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison’s originality and power emerge * The Nation *Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time… [Morrison] is a major talent * Chicago Tribune *Full of beauty, eccentricity, bustle, laughter, sensuality, generous affection… Toni Morrison’s work is strikingly individual * Time Literary Supplement *Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature * New York Review of Books *Exemplary… The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy * Newsweek *Enchanting…Powerful * Chicago Daily News *As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist…written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache * Playboy *

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.