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A Mercy

by Toni Morrison

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A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is stil... Read more
A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.

Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master''s house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . .

At the novel''s heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Less

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File size7.9x5.2x0.7inches
Print pages195
PublisherVintage
Publication date August 1, 2009
Languageeng
ISBN9780307276766
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Toni Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (Feb 18, 1931 – Aug 5, 2019), was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The criti...

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