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Biographical note
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.Toni 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 her
Guardian
A beautiful and important book
The Times
Powerful, elemental... The issues Morrison explores go to the root of what humanity is. They could not be more important
Guardian
Left me trembling at the sheer brilliance of its storytelling and the unassailable dignity of its purpose
Evening Standard
So enthralling that you'll want to read it more than once
Sunday Times
Varied and authoritative and frequently beautiful
New Yorker
An enduring, evocative read which carefully weaves fragmented, personal experiences into a layered, ambivalent narrative about slavery and the price of freedom
Irish Times
Morrison is at the very height of her powers
Daily Mail
For all its restraint, and its sinister stealth, <i>A Mercy</i> is a furious novel, a volley of anger, contempt and sorrow... the rich and seemingly casual evocative accretion of background and narrative slowly tightens its grip until the reader is utterly in thrall
Herald
Emotions run deep and twisted in Morrison's fiction; and their outcome is superbly traced in this powerful, flawed and genuinely creative novel
Sunday Telegraph