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A Mercy

A Mercy

Morrison, Toni

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0307264238
ISBN13: 9780307264237
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Nov 11 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
Awards: ALA Notable Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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.

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Spellbinding. . . . Dazzling. . . . [A Mercy] stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph. --The Washington Post Book World

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 house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

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