by Toni Morrison · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099535331
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«A Mercy» is the historical novel by Toni Morrison, published by Vintage in paperback (176 pages, in English).
In 1680s North America, with the slave trade still in its infancy, Florens, a girl who can read and write, is given to Jacob as part of a payment. In the house she lives alongside other uprooted women: Lina, Rebekka and Sorrow. The novel explores love, motherhood and self-invention in a world of religious and racial prejudice.
The novel appeared on the longlist for the Orange Prize and was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; it also won the Tournament of Books from The Morning News.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in slavery in colonial America and in the work of a Nobel Prize-winning author.
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987).
