Mercy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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' life changes irrevocably. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780099502548
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950254-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Social issues, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, Modern and contemporary fiction, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / African American & Black / Women, FICTION / Indigenous, Relating to Native American people, C 1600 To C 1700, Slavery and abolition of slavery