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By Toni Morrison
Series: Brief Encounters
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Experience a brief encounter with Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in this masterful novella about race, ambiguity, and the unexpected connections that shape our lives. A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only... Read More
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Experience a brief encounter with Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in this masterful novella about race, ambiguity, and the unexpected connections that shape our lives.

A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.

Twyla and Roberta met in a girls' shelter as children. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store, and then on opposing sides of a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every issue, but the persistence of their bond is undeniable.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529983586

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Zadie Smith

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 86g

Pages: 96

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Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Brief Encounters Toni Morrison

About the Author

Toni Morrison (Author) 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. Zadie Smith (Introducer) Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.

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