One of the most respected, and well-loved, American writers alive today, Morrison is also the most recent American writer to win the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNewly re-jacketed in gorgeous new backlist style to coincide with the paperback publication of
God Help the ChildTotal sales of Morrison's books now at 774,000 across all editions, home and export. Vintage sales of
Beloved have now reached over 385,000 copies.
A Mercy sold over 75k copies to dateRecent BBC Imagine documentary on the life and work of Toni Morrison was watched by 1 million viewersHuge and dedicated fanbase: readers are so devoted that they cry at her public appearances and her fanbase includes Barack Obama
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.
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.
Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear – the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
‘What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age’ Alice Walker, Guardian
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitterMorrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling writers at work todayToni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining herIn characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge
Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [Morrison] is a major talent