An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved." Jadine, a sophisticated Sorbonne graduate and art historian—a black American now living in Paris and Rome—arrives at the Caribbean estate of a white millionaire. There is also Son, an outlaw on the run, uneducated, violent, with disdain—a young black American from rural Florida, with striking beauty. As Morrison follows their affair, she captures all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between black and white, master and servant, and man and woman. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.