Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our 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.
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*
Nobel laureate Morrison returns more explicitly to the net of pain cast by slavery, a theme she detailed so memorably in Beloved. Set at the close of the 17th century, the book details America's untoward foundation: dominion over Native Americans, indentured workers, women and slaves. A slave at a plantation in Maryland offers up her daughter, Florens, to a relatively humane Northern farmer, Jacob, as debt payment from their owner. The ripples of this choice spread to the inhabitants of Jacob's farm, populated by women with intersecting and conflicting desires. Jacob's wife, Rebekka, struggles with her faith as she loses one child after another to the harsh New World. A Native servant, Lina, survivor of a smallpox outbreak, craves Florens's love to replace the family taken from her, and distrusts the other servant, a peculiar girl named Sorrow. When Jacob falls ill, all these women are threatened. Morrison's lyricism infuses the shifting voices of her characters as they describe a brutal society being forged in the wilderness. Morrison's unflinching narrative is all the more powerful for its relative brevity; it takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go until the wrenching final-page crescendo. (Nov.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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 *
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