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Paradise

byToni Morrison

Who is this book for? Readers interested in complex narratives about race, gender, and community dynamics.

Topics Race and RacelessnessCommunityViolence against Women
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
Female protagonist
ViolenceModerate
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging. 'When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose.' - Hilary Mantel, Spectator

Language

en

Published on

25/03/1999

Pages

318

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780099768210

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