Description: "A Mercy" is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved" and is almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.

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Reviews: "[Toni Morrison's] astonishing new novel... has both X-ray eyes and telepathic powers… [which] add up to a sensuous omniscience that is practically Elizabethan." --Harper's

"…a tale that not only emerges as a heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams, but also stands, with 'Beloved,' as one of Ms. Morrison's most haunting works yet." New York Times