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  • Published: 24 November 1995
  • ISBN: 9781857152166
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $37.99

Song of Solomon





Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.

  • Published: 24 November 1995
  • ISBN: 9781857152166
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $37.99

About the author

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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