'Beautiful, funny, enormously moving... From the opening pages, I sat bolt upright, aware that I was in the presence of a major talent' Mordecai Richler
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion come- Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome. Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to his identity. . . .
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'Beautiful, funny, enormously moving... From the opening pages, I sat bolt upright, aware that I was in the presence of a major talent' Mordecai Richler
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion come- Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome. Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to his identity. . . .
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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there's Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction'Toni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together' Bonnie Greer, Guardian
Critic Reviews
“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”
Wonderful... A triumph New York 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
Deeply perceptive...Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel New York Times Book Review
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description Sunday Times
Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability New York Times
It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships Vogue
Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language...One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison' s story Washington Post
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose-She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer Guardian
That rare commodity, a truly public novel... Morrison' s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates Newsweek
Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking St Louis Globe-Democrat
About the Author
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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