Home

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his shattered sense of self, he unearths the courage he thought he'd lost forever. It is with incantatory power that Morrison's language reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and, finally, his home. 'No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Reviews

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics dont seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian *
A triumph * Sunday Times *
A heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams... Haunting * New York Times *
I read Toni Morrison's Home in one sitting and was moved to tears. It's a novella only in length: the deceptively straightforward narrative contains worlds * Scotsman *
Morrisons writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page * Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.