Song of Solomon
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Summary
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.
As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of flight.
‘A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story’ Daily Telegraph
‘Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James
INTRODUCED BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES
**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of flight.
‘A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story’ Daily Telegraph
‘Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James
INTRODUCED BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES
**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
Reviews
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
