Song of Solomon

The poetry of the language. The vernacular and the rhythms of speech... It's eavesdropping on a slice of life. You care for every character. You love them, you bleed for them. It's a masterclass in narrative fiction. It's a book that not only makes me want to be a better writer, but a better person as well

Sarah Winman, Good Housekeeping

The language of Morrison's third novel astounds from its first pages to its triumphant conclusion... an epic of the African-American experience

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Week

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

A rhapsodic work... Intricate and inventive

New Yorker

Stunningly beautiful... Full of magnificent people... They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever

Anne Tyler, Washington Post

A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story...glittering

Daily Telegraph

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life

Marlon James, Guardian

Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family

New York Times Book Review

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Sunday Telegraph

A stunning novel that's steeped in black history

Marc Chacksfield, ShortList

The story of Milkman Dead and Guitar had me in thrall

Salman Rushdie, New York Times