Four young women suffer a violent attack in a convent near an all-African-American town in America, in the mid-1970s. The inevitable nature of this attack, as well as the efforts to avoid it, are at the center of Paradise. The story ranges from the birth of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, to the counterculture and politics of the late '70s, skillfully handling the past, present, and future. This novel reveals the inner lives of the town's citizens with astonishing clarity. It introduces the conflicts that have plagued the American century: between race and the absence of race, religion and magic, freedom and faith, individuality and belonging. "When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the currents of history pulsing through her prose" Hilary Mantel, Spectator. "Morrison almost monopolizes the forward movement of American literature in the latter half of the 20th century, taking it to a place where it can finally embrace the details and contradictions of the great scar of race that has marked the Republic from the beginning" Caryl Phillips, Guardian.

From the NOBEL LAUREATE AUTHOR OF BELOVED. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction.

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm