{"product_id":"a-mercy-toni-morrison-9780099502548","title":"A Mercy","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful and important book' The Times\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones, New York Times\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48838973882611,"sku":"9780099502548","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780099502548.jpg?v=1776283444","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/a-mercy-toni-morrison-9780099502548","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}