Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
‘Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James
Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly.
In 1930s America Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. But his odyssey back home and a deadly confrontation with Guitar leads to the discovery of something infinitely more valuable than gold: his past and the origins of his true self.
‘The story of Milkman Dead and Guitar had me in thrall’ Salman Rushdie, New York Times
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
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Reviews for Song of Solomon
Guardian
The poetry of the language. The vernacular and the rhythms of speech... It's eavesdropping on a slice of life. You care for every character. You love them, you bleed for them. It's a masterclass in narrative fiction. It's a book that not only makes me want to be a better writer, but a better person as well
Sarah Winman
Good Housekeeping
Stunningly beautiful... Full of magnificent people... They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever
Washington Post
Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life
Guardian
A rhapsodic work... Intricate and inventive
New Yorker
A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story...glittering
Daily Telegraph
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour
Evening Standard
The language of Morrison's third novel astounds from its first pages to its triumphant conclusion... an epic of the African-American experience
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Week
Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family
New York Times Book Review
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour
Sunday Telegraph