BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OFBELOVED
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her.Sulais a story of fear the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye, Beloved(made into a major film),ParadiseandLove.She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
The wildly different lives of two black women from Ohio reveal the tensions between small-town politics and individual character in a story told with the poetic intensity that only Toni Morrison can muster.>
