A Mercy
Author(s): Toni Morrison
Fiction | NYT Best Books of 21st Century
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the strange and melancholy 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 brutal landscape of the north of America in the seventeenth century.
Product Information
The long-awaited new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved.
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.129
- : 28 February 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Toni Morrison
- : Paperback
- : 6-Sep
- : English
- : 813.54
- : 176
- : FA