Watch Video of Toni Morrison Reading from A MERCY

Last May, Toni Morrison visited the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam to celebrate the publication of her novel A MERCY.  In this excellent video of her presentation, Ms. Morrison reads a chapter from the novel and discusses the writing process.

She explains that she wanted to go back to a time when slavery was happening - in the earliest years of pre-colonial America - before it became associated with the racism of slavery we know so well.

What makes this video and presentation most interesting is that she is speaking to a non-American audience (in English) and they show enormous respect for her place in world literature.

Here for the video