Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
So enthralling that you'll want to read it more than once * Sunday Times * Left me trembling at the sheer brilliance of its storytelling and the unassailable dignity of its purpose * Evening Standard * Powerful, elemental... The issues Morrison explores go to the root of what humanity is. They could not be more important * Guardian * A beautiful and important book * The Times * 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 *