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A Mercy" is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved" and is almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.

INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio.

Nobel Prize recipient Toni Morrison and her son, Slade, breathe new life into this classic fable in which the hare learns a very important lesson. Full color.

Nobel Prize recipient Toni Morrison and her son, Slade, retell Aesop's fable The Bundle of Sticks, in this gentle, environmental tale. Full color.

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New York Times BestsellerStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby...

Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."Sula has the same power, the same beauty.At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both s...

Paperback edition of the new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, about desire, yearning and love. A story rich in characters and dramatic events and with a profound understanding of the past. Toni Morrison is the author of seven novels, including "Beloved" and "Paradise".

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.

The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spec...

The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. "Remember" will be published on the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ending legal school segregation, handed down on May 17, 1954.

It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America.In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Toni Morrison con...

The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary trad...

On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time.

«HÄTTE AMERIKA EINE NATIONALSCHRIFTSTELLERIN, SO WÄRE ES TONI MORRISON.» THE NEW YORK TIMESMilton, Delaware, 1682: Gegen seine Überzeugung nimmt der Pflanzer Vaark aus Mitleid ein junges Sklavenmädchen in Zahlung. Doch bald stirbt er, und das Mädchen bleibt mit drei anderen Frauen, die das Schicksal dort zusammengeweht hat, allein auf seiner Farm zurück. Zusammen kämpfen sie gegen die Wildnis - die der harschen Natur um sie herum und die in ih...

Der neue Roman der Nobelpreisträgerin Fünf Frauen zwischen Leidenschaft, Macht und Emanzipation: In einem vielfältigen, fast ein Jahrhundert umspannenden Geflecht erzählt "Liebe" von fünf Frauen, die vom gleichen Mann besessen waren - oder es noch sind: Pfarrerstochter May, Tochter Christine, die junge Heed, Junior und schließlich L., die die Fäden zieht.Handelt "Liebe" von Liebe? Nun, von vielen Formen der Liebe und von dem, was daraus werden...