A Mercy (Paperback)

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One of" The New York Times" 10 Best Books of the Year
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its 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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	August 2009
Authors:	Toni Morrison
Dimensions:	203 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	195
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-27676-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-307-27676-7
Barcode:	9780307276766

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