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 Literature.Newly re-jacketed in stunning new backlist style to coincide with the paperback publication of
God Help the Child.Total 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 date.Recent 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.
An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian – a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there’s Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous – a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
‘Toni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together’ Bonnie Greer, Guardian
Wonderful... A triumphToni 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 herDeeply perceptive...Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novelToni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in descriptionToni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability
