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Romance, Serious and literary fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Classic fiction, Family stories, Mysteries and crime stories
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Son, a black fugitive, invades the West Indian home of a retired millionaire, upsetting the racially diverse household. He captivates…
pampered Jadine, a black fashion model. Their ideologically complicated love affair plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan. 2004 foreword by the author. Strong language. 1981
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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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La violence des hommes contre les femmes, le paradoxe d'une ville noire dont les citoyens eux-mêmes deviennent les oppresseurs, sont…
les thèmes centraux de ce roman. En 1950, un groupe de neuf familles fondent une petite communauté noire à Ruby, Oklahoma. Vingt ans plus tard, en 1976, neuf hommes font irruption à l'intérieur d'un couvent, maintenant transformé en refuge.
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Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined…
novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly…
hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 11-12 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
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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, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction
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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard…
said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. " Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour. . . at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance). . . that a child drowned in the river years ago. . . that there was a plague of robins when she first returned. . . In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
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Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and…
as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. A New York Times Bestseller
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Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la década de 1920, con…
la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en años, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podrán vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los años '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados. Joe acabará cometiendo un horrendo crimen pasional, mientras que Violet se verá obligada a convivir con sus celos y las repercusiones del acto de su marido. Retrato de una comunidad en plena ebullición, Jazz es una potente novela sobre conflictos raciales, ilusiones perdidas y las injusticias padecidas por las mujeres en el siglo XX. La crítica ha dicho:«Jazz brilla con una intensidad que se encuentra más a menudo en la poesía trágica del pasado que en la narrativa de hoy [...] La voz de Morrison trasciende los colores y los credos, y ella se ha vuelto una de las más destacadas escritoras estadounidenses de posguerra.»The Guardian «La escritura de Morrison acerca de un romance negro salda su deuda con la música blues, cuyos ritmos y placeres melancólicos la autora ha transformado mágicamente en una novela.»London Review of Books «La autora hace aparecer mundos con total autoridad y no oculta su angustia ante las injusticias padecidas por las mujeres de color.»The New York Times Book Review
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the relationships that shape us…
through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Written in 1980 and anthologized in a number of collections, this is the first time Recitatif is being published as a stand-alone hardcover. In the story, Twyla&’s and Roberta&’s races remain ambiguous. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? Morrison herself described this story as &“an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.&” Recitatif is a remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and about how perceptions are made tangible by reality.
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Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black…
fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight.…
For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
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Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Short stories
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TONI MORRISON INÉDITA El único y deslumbrante relato de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, «un gigante de su…
época y de la nuestra» (Margaret Atwood), con un epílogo de Zadie Smith. «Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguíamos: nos enseñó la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se unen un gran corazón y una mente feroz».Salman RushdieDos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban. «La sal y la pimienta», como las empiezan a llamar los demás, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos lugares: un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestación, siempre en lados opuestos de los conflictos sociales.En el único relato que escribió, la gran Morrison imagina el mapa de las identidades raciales de forma alternativa y sitúa al lector en el centro de uno de sus experimentos literarios más complejos. Esta edición incluye, además, un epílogo en el que Zadie Smith ahonda en la maestría de este sofisticado artefacto literario. La crítica ha dicho:«La historia es un rompecabezas, pues; un juego. Aunque, claro, Toni Morrison no juega. Cuando afirmaba que Las dos amigas era un experimento, lo decía en serio. Y el objeto de ese experimento es el lector».Zadie Smith «Morrison fue pionera en realizar una descripción de la cultura negra que también considerara la política, la historia de Estados Unidos, la supremacía blanca, las diferencias de clase, el género y el trauma intergeneracional. Toni Morrison hizo todo eso».Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New York Times Book Review «Pese a que Las dos amigas fue escrito hace bastantes años, los temas que desarrolla y plantea tienen más relevancia que nunca».CNN.com «Las agudas reflexiones de Morrison sobre la raza, el racismo y las jerarquías raciales tienen aún mucha importancia y exponen las raíces del malestar social».Literary Hub, «Uno de los libros más esperados de 2022» «Esta historia es una profunda e innovadora contradicción».Booklist«El experimento de Morrison se ejecuta de manera brillante, lo que fuerza al lector a reconsiderar los estereotipos raciales al tiempo que ofrece una historia inolvidable. El talento sin igual de Morrison se muestra aquí en todo su esplendor».Publishers Weekly«Un experimento conceptual. [...] Página a página, Morrison juega con el lector [...], nos hace pensar que podríamos resolver el enigma sobre quién es negra y quién es blanca, pero siempre manteniendo la solución al misterio un paso más allá de nuestro alcance. Aunque [...] esta solución no es lo más importante. Una experiencia de lectura única e iluminadora».Kirkus Reviews «Toni Morrison fue un gigante de su época y de la nuestra».Margaret Atwood
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In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of…
Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
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The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table,…
finally gathers all fourteen of Levi's books--memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction--into three slipcased volumes. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi's body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century's greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi's fourteen books--memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction--into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi's writing as a "triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction." The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of "one of the most valuable writers of our time" (Alfred Kazin). The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People's Trades, and If Not Now, When?--as well as all of Levi's poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.