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Tar Baby

‘It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships’ Vogue

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated black graduate of the Sorbonne. Then there’s Son, a criminal on the run, violent, uneductaed, a man who embodies all she loathes – and all she most desires.

A ravishingly beautiful, incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘She told incredible, passionate, resonant stories.’ Roxane Gay

Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.

About Toni Morrison

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.
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