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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppre ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
22.99 NZD
29.99 (23% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Terrible, 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. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gho ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, 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. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: I | Reading Level: very good
"The new novel from the author of BelovedThe past has a hold like no other...Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His Home and himself in it may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apat ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America. It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And t ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the i ...Show more