Desdemona

''This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.'' The Guardian

Ripped from the world by her husband''s paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in a moving elegy.

Audacious with ambition, Desdemona is Toni Morrison''s intimate reimagining of the...