A Mercy

A Mercy

by Toni Morrison
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/01/2010

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'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 she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. 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.


Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.


‘Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known’ Tayari Jones, New York Times


BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED


Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

ISBN:
9781407016597
9781407016597
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-01-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She has also 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 passed away in August 2019, aged 88.

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