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Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise.

"They shoot the white girl first. With the others they can take their time." Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in rural Oklahoma... Read Full Overview

DISPARAN PRIMERO contra la chica blanca. Con las dem s pueden tomarse el tiempo que quieran . Para so empieza con esta horrible escena de violencia. El pueblo de Ruby, Oklahoma, se fund en los cuarenta por descendientes de los esclavos liberados y erigi sobre los cimientos... Read Full Overview

"They shoot the white girl first. With the others they can take their time." Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in rural Oklahoma... Read Full Overview

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Make it easy on yourself, read #1 bestselling author Toni Morrison in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took... Read Full Overview