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In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest, they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Nine men from Ruby, in defence of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and brutally attack four young women from it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. "T

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Author

Morrison, Toni

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283996228

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24