Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

A mercy : a novel / by Toni Morrison. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International, 2009. - 195 p. ; 21 cm.

National Bestseller/ Winner of the Nobel prize

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith, in a novel set in late seventeenth-century America.

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African American girls--Fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Literatura estadounidense
Interracial adoption--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Prejudice--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS 3563 / M882m 2009

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