Sula
Toni Morrison
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.
Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear – the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
‘What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age’ Alice Walker, Guardian
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 Sula
New York Times
Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling writers at work today
The Times
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her
Guardian
In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge
The Nation
Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [Morrison] is a major talent
Chicago Tribune
Full of beauty, eccentricity, bustle, laughter, sensuality, generous affection… Toni Morrison’s work is strikingly individual
Time Literary Supplement
Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature
New York Review of Books
Exemplary... The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy
Newsweek
Enchanting...Powerful
Chicago Daily News
As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist...written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache
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