A mercy / Toni Morrison.

By:

Morrison, Toni

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Vintage, 2016.Description: 158 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780099502548

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DDC classification:

23 813.54 MOR

Summary: On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the strange and melancholy 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 brutal landscape of the north of America in the seventeenth century.

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Item type	Home library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	IMU Chennai Semmencherry Library General Stacks	813.54 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	23100
Books	IMU Chennai Uthandi Library General Stacks	813.54 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	23099

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the strange and melancholy 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 brutal landscape of the north of America in the seventeenth century.

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