Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The
inevitability of this attack and the attempts to avert it lie at the heart of Paradise.
Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement Vietnam the counter-culture of the late 1970s
deftly manipulating past present and future this novel reveals the interior lives of its
American citizens with astonishing clarity. It is through their eyes we see the clashes that
have defined a nation. 'When Morrison writes at her best you can feel the workings of history
through her prose' Hilary Mantel Spectator'Morrison almost single-handedly took American
fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century to a place where it could finally
embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the
republic since its inception' Caryl Phillips GuardianBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF
BELOVED**Winner of the PEN Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
