A Mercy

Grace (Original Title: A Mercy ) is Toni Morrison's ninth novel, was published November 11, 2008 Much like her Pulitzer Prize - winning work of man. ( Original title: Beloved ) is the novel at the first level of slavery in the early America of the 17th century. On the second level it is about the relationship between mother and daughter - a mother who gives away her daughter to save her, and a daughter, who struggles with this repudiation.

  • 3.1 Classification into the work of the author
  • 4.1 Reception in appearance
  • 5.1 Texts

Content

Action

The slave Florens working on the farm of Jacob Vaark in the harsh North. Lina, an Indian, who also works on the farm of Vaarks told in a subplot as it was one of the few survivors of a smallpox epidemic that has destroyed their entire tribe. Rebecca, the wife of Jacob Vaarks describes how she leaves England on a ship in the direction of the new world, there to marry a man she has never seen before. The subsequent death of their children is devastating for the Vaarks, and Jacob accepts the young Florens, who can read and write, by a Portuguese Catholic debtor in Maryland hoping so cheer up the mood of his wife Rebekah and end her loneliness. Jacob Vaark itself is an orphan who grew up in poor houses and came to the new world by acting and lending money to a modest prosperity. During his travels through the young colonies he muses on the role of different religions in their culture and the resulting different settings to slavery.

All these characters are stripped of their roots and try them in a new and strange environment, which is filled to survive hazards and diseases. As Rebekah ill with smallpox and gets her life in danger, it sends the now 16 -year-old Florens out to find a blacksmith, a free black man who understands the herbal medicine and the earlier of the farm of Vaarks the construction new main house and entrance gate helped. Florens had this love with him and the journey on which it sends Rebecca to be a turning point in their lives.

People

  • Florens - slave girl who is abandoned by her mother and handed over by their Portuguese masters to Jacob Vaark in exchange for an open fault
  • Florens ' mother - a slave on the farm of a Portuguese gentlemen in Catholic Maryland
  • Lina - Indian and one of the few survivors of a smallpox Epdemie that has almost eradicated its complete strain was taken up by the Vaarks
  • Sorrow - daughter of a sea captain, who survived a shipwreck and also taken up by the Vaarks was
  • Jacob Vaark - Anglo- Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small farm in the harsh north of the new colonies
  • Rebekka - Jacobs woman who came by ship from England
  • Nameless blacksmith - free black who understands next to the blacksmithing on Naturopathic
  • Willard - slave on a neighboring farm
  • Scully - a slave on a neighboring farm

Form

The story is told in different chapters, sometimes retrospectively, from the perspective of different characters. The individual chapters fit it in the course of the book to an overall picture that reflects the harshness and brutality of life in the young American colonies in the 17th century.

Position in literary history

Classification in the work of the author

Grace is the ninth novel by Toni Morrison, and released in 2008.

Reception

Reception on publication

Grace made ​​it after his appearance in the New York Times Book Review list as one of the best 10 books in 2008.

In a review of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:

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