{"product_id":"paradise-by-toni-morrison-9780099768210","title":"Paradise","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of \u003cem\u003eParadise\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, this novel deftly manipulates past, present and future. It reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity, starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose' \u003cem\u003eHilary Mantel, Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception' \u003cem\u003eCaryl Phillips, Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995492401388,"sku":"9780099768210","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099768210-paradise.jpg?v=1784897114","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/paradise-by-toni-morrison-9780099768210","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}