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Award winning fiction, Historical fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
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Related in kaleidoscopic fashion and set in rural Ohio during the period immediately following the Civil War, this chronicle of…
slavery and its aftermath traces the life of Sethe, a former slave. Sethe has a secret in her past so horrific that it has alienated the community, driven off her two sons, isolated her surviving daughter, and threatened her new, loving relationship with Paul D., also a former slave. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1987.
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Colonial North America, 1680s. An Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly accepts a young slave girl named Florens as payment for a bad…
debt. Her mother hopes the transaction will prove a mercy to Florens, but subsequent years in Jacob Vaark’s household reveal the harsh reality of being under another’s dominion. Includes strong language. 2009.
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Colonial North America, 1680s. An Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly accepts a young slave girl named Florens as payment for a bad…
debt. Her mother hopes the transaction will prove a mercy to Florens, but subsequent years in Jacob Vaark’s household reveal the harsh reality of being under another’s dominion. Some violence. Bestseller. 2008.
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War stories, Historical fiction, General fiction
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America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of…
redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home.
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Colonial North America, 1680s. An Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly accepts a young slave girl named Florens as payment for a bad…
debt. Her mother hopes the transaction will prove a mercy to Florens, but subsequent years in Jacob Vaark's household reveal the harsh reality of being under another's dominion. Some violence. Bestseller. 2008
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In 1976, nine men from an African American town in Oklahoma assault a former convent, the refuge of four female…
outcasts. The multilayered stories of the women, men, and town culminate in this attack, intended to purge and protect the community. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. Bestseller
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Historical fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Related in kaleidoscopic fashion and set in rural Ohio during the period immediately following the Civil War, this chronicle of…
slavery and its aftermath traces the life of Sethe, a former slave. Sethe has a secret in her past so horrific that it has alienated the community, driven off her two sons, isolated her surviving daughter, and threatened her new, loving relationship with Paul D., also a former slave. Bestseller 1987. Some violence
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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"L'histoire prend place à la fin du XVIIe siècle : à cette époque, les colonies d'Amérique sont à peine nées,…
l'esclavage des Noirs venus d'Afrique est un fait nouveau et n'est pas encore la pierre angulaire de l'économie américaine. Les personnages d'Un don vivent dans une petite ferme isolée du Maryland, propriété de Jacob Vaark, un fermier et négociant anglo-néerlandais marié à Rebekka. Cette jeune Anglaise est l'aînée de sa famille. Ses parents, peu soucieux de son sort, ont décidé de répondre à l'annonce de Jacob qui recherchait "une femme en bonne santé, chaste et désireuse de voyager". Quand on propose à Jacob de prendre à son service la très jeune Florens, en compensation d'un retard de paiement, il y voit la possibilité d'alléger la peine de sa femme, dont aucun enfant n'a survécu. Florens n'a jamais compris pourquoi sa mère avait cherché à se séparer d'elle. C'est sa parole qui ouvre le récit, révélant au lecteur qu'elle a commis un crime de sang qui ne cesse de la hanter". -- 4e de couv
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Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction, War stories
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The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the…
way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish.... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
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Multi-cultural fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction
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Una madre Sethe la esclava que mata a su propia hija para salvarla del horror para que…
la indignidad del presente no tenga futuro posible Una hija Beloved la ni a que desde su nacimiento se aliment de leche mezclada con sangre y poco a poco fue perdiendo contacto con la realidad por la voluntad de un cari o demasiado denso Una experiencia el crimen como nica arma contra el dolor ajeno el amor como nica justificaci n ante el delito y la muerte comoparad jica salvaci n ante una vida destinada a la esclavitud Con este dolor y este amor en apariencia indecibles Toni Morrison ha construido una soberbia novela que en su d a le vali el Premio Pulitzer