TONY. MORRISON

Into a white millionaire''s Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity-

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halleand Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe''s baby daughter Beloved, whosename is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother''s hands, and who will return to claim retribution.

Into a white millionaires Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then theres Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between black and white people, masters and servants, and men and women.An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**Toni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together Bonnie Greer, Guardian