Toni Morrison

a novel

A mercy

Rocío de la Hera

Personajes abandonados a la vera del camino, abusos de poder, necesidad de pertenecerse a uno mismo o a alguien, estar lejos de casa para siempre, entender que "casa" termina siendo un colectivo de gente, un cúmulo de costumbres. Brujas, toques de realismo mágico, pugna entre religiones y condenas al diferente. Dolor, madres e hijas, querer explicaciones y consejos: jamás tenerlos. Historias de personas invisibles que adquieren voz en este relato de clima aletargado, profundo, animal y conmovedor. 
Toni Morrison a punto de ser nueva autora favorita.

James Haliburton

Every word is perfectly chosen; in less than 200 pages Toni Morrison has distilled an imaginative narrative that beautifully and heart-breakingly encompasses the random injustices imposed by gender, race, religion and disease in 17th Century North America. Somewhere amongst the brutality and violence of the times, there is still space for humanity and the driving belief in love and hope for freedom. Highly recommended.

Fiona Coffey

I had to read this book for one of my college courses through the lens of the social construction of racism. 

It was a difficult book to follow at first, I had to actually read it a second time to finally figure out what was happening, but reading it the second time, I realized that I really liked the book! 

It's a good book! Not the sort of book I would usually read in my spare time, but I liked it nonetheless.

CJ Clark

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Catherine Nicolai

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

A mercy a novel

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