A Mercy

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<p><b>BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF<i>BELOVED</i></b></p><p>On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.</p><p><b>Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction</b></p>

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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including<i>The Bluest Eye, Beloved</i>(made into a major film),<i>Paradise</i>and<i>Love.</i>She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

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