Tar Baby

<p><b>An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of <i>Beloved.</i></b><br><br> Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne art historian &#150; a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there&#146;s Son a criminal on the run uneducated violent contemptuous &#150; a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites masters and servants and men and women.<br><br> <b>Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction</b><br><b><br>&#145;Toni Morrison was a quintessential unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant Walt Whitman her work was above all audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it unwove it and put it back together&#146; Bonnie Greer <i>Guardian</i></b></p>