Paradise
Author: Toni Morrison
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED.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 pa….Read More
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