Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son. Jadine is
sophisticated beautiful a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive
from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows
their affair she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between black and white
people masters and servants and men and women. An unforgettable and transformative novel that
explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.
**Winner of the PEN Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**'Toni Morrison was a
quintessential unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant Walt Whitman her work was
above all audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it unwove it and put
it back together' Bonnie Greer Guardian
