A Mercy Paperback by Toni Morrison

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2009-08-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780676978315
• Item Weight: 226.8 grams
• Dimensions: 7.95 x 5.15 x 0.6 cm

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • In one of Morrison’s most haunting works, the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the 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.

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.

About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.