ABOUT
THE BOOK

In Paradise– her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature- Toni Morrison gives a bravura performance.  As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Rugby ( pop.360 ), in defence of ‘the one all-black town worth the pain’, assault the nearby convent and the women in it. From the town`s ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void “out there..where random and organised evil erupted when and where it chose”. Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.