About “A Mercy”
A 2008 novel by Toni Morrison, described as set two centuries before Beloved. In the 1680s, Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, takes a small slave girl named Florens in part payment for a debt from a Maryland plantation owner. Florens seeks love from Lina, an older servant, and later a blacksmith, while other voices include Rebekka, Sorrow, and Florens' own mother, in a story about a mother who casts off her daughter to save her.
Book details
- Published
- 2010
- Latest edition
- 2010 · ISBN 9781407016597
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| Cover | Edition | Year | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A Mercy | 2010 | 9781407016597 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mercy | 2010 | 9780753184837 | Buy on Amazon | |
| A mercy | 2009 | 9780307276766 | Buy on Amazon | |
| Mercy | 2009 | 9780676978315 | Buy on Amazon | |
| Mercy | 2009 | 9780307373076 | Buy on Amazon | |
 | Mercy | 2009 | 9780099502548 | Buy on Amazon |
 | A mercy | 2009 | 9780307276766 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mercy | 2009 | 9780099535331 | Buy on Amazon | |
| A mercy | 2008 | 9780739326305 | Buy on Amazon | |
| | A mercy | 2008 | 9780307264237 | Buy on Amazon |
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