A mercy

Summary: In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.

Item details

ISBN: 9780307264237
ISBN: 0307264238
ISBN: 9780676978308
ISBN: 0676978304
ISBN: 9780307276766
ISBN: 0307276767
Physical Description: print
regular print
167 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Copyright: ©2008
Badges:
- Top Circs: 3 / 5.0
- Most Copies: 5 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Awards Note:	Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993.

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