Sula…profoundly changed my life Marlon James, Guardian is a major talent Chicago Tribuneįull of beauty, eccentricity, bustle, laughter, sensuality, generous affection… Toni Morrison’s work is strikingly individual Time Literary Supplement Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time. In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge The Nation She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her Guardian One of the most compelling writers at work today The Times Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Read more 'What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age' Alice Walker, GuardianīY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED 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.
Sula is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesĪs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.