A Mercy
A national best seller, and one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, A Mercy was deemed one of Morrison's most haunting works by Michiko Kakutani.In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh, he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-27676-6
- EAN: 9780307276766
- Produktnummer: 4813196
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
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Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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