A Mercy (Paperback)

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by Toni Morrison

Description

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.

About the Author

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She was the author of several novels, including The Bluest Eye and Beloved. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She was also the Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University.

Product Details

Category: Fiction

Language: English

Format/Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0307276767 

ISBN-13: 978-0307276766

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: August 11, 2009

Pages: 224

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