Sula

<p><b>Toni Morrison (Author) </b><br> Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels including <i>The Bluest Eye</i> <i>Sula</i> <i>Beloved</i> <i>Paradise</i> and <i>Love</i>. 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.<br><br><b>Namwali Serpell (Introducer) </b><br> <b>Namwali Serpell</b> was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. She has received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her debut novel <i>The Old Drift</i> won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction and the<i> Los Angeles Times'</i> Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the<i> New York Times Book Review</i> and one of <i>Time </i>Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book <i>Stranger Faces</i> was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her short story 'Take It' was a finalist for the 2020 <i>Sunday Times</i> Audible Short Story Award. She is a Professor of English at Harvard.<br><br><br><br></p> <p><b>Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.</b><br><b><br>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAMWALI SERPELL AUTHOR OF <i>THE OLD DRIFT </i></b><br><br>As young girls in a poor but close-knit community Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn't be more different: while Nel settles in town to raise a family Sula escapes for the progressive ideals of the big city. When Sula reappears ten years later she comes face to face with a community whose values are at odds with her fierce individualism and rebellious ways. Reunited Nel and Sula must confront the consequences of their actions and the dreadful secret they shared in childhood.<br><br>Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Terrifying comic and tragic <i>Sula</i> overflows with love and life friendship and betrayal.</p> <p><b>Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.</b><br><b><br>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAMWALI SERPELL AUTHOR OF <i>THE OLD DRIFT </i></b><br><br>As young girls in a poor but close-knit community Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn't be more different: while Nel settles in town to raise a family Sula escapes for the progressive ideals of the big city. When Sula reappears ten years later she comes face to face with a community whose values are at odds with her fierce individualism and rebellious ways. Reunited Nel and Sula must confront the consequences of their actions and the dreadful secret they shared in childhood.<br><br>Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Terrifying comic and tragic <i>Sula</i> overflows with love and life friendship and betrayal.</p>