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The bluest eye (Picador Bks.)
By Toni Morrison. 1994
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.Tar baby
By Toni Morrison. 1983
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion come Jadine - graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian, an American black now living…
in Paris and Rome - and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous, an American black from small-town Florida. Son is a threat to her freedom; she is a threat to his identity. Strong language. 1983.Love
By Toni Morrison. 2004
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida, even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's…
Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces, a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial. 2004.Sula
By Toni Morrison. 2002
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.Home: A novel
By Toni Morrison. 2012
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.Recitatif: A story
By Toni Morrison. 2022
A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—…
for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith &“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an &‘experiment&’ she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.&” —Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story—the only short story Morrison ever wrote—we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif , a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, 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." 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? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing timesA mercy
By Toni Morrison. 2008
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. 2008Love: A novel
By Toni Morrison. 2003
Even after the death of seaside resort owner Bill Cosey, his women--widow Heed, granddaughter Christine, and mistress Celestial--continue their feuds.…
These members of the town's African American former elite reminisce about the man they loved and hated. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2003Song of Solomon (Contemporary Fiction, Plume Ser.)
By Toni Morrison. 1987
This novel surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges upon four generations of a single black family.…
Macon Dead III, known as Milkman, is the first black baby allowed to be born in Mercy Hospital in the 1930s. Milkman undertakes an epic journey into an understanding of his family's heritage and, hence, himself. Strong language and descriptions of sexThe bluest eye
By Toni Morrison. 1993
1941. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--poor, ugly, and black--desperately wants blue eyes, which she thinks would solve all her problems. But instead…
she is subjected to rejection, violence, and an unwanted pregnancy. Slowly, she begins to descend into madness. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1970Paradise
By Toni Morrison. 1998
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. BestsellerBeloved: a novel (Vintage International)
By Toni Morrison. 1987
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 violenceTar baby (Vintage International)
By Toni Morrison. 2004
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. 1981Un don
By Toni Morrison. 2009
"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 couvThe bluest eye
By Toni Morrison. 1970
1941. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--poor, ugly, and black--desperately wants blue eyes, which she thinks would solve all her problems. But instead…
she is subjected to rejection, violence, and an unwanted pregnancy. Slowly, she begins to descend into madness. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1970Paradis
By Toni Morrison. 1998
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.Amor
By Toni Morrison. 2003
Heed y Christine, dos mujeres ya ancianas, han dedicado toda su vida a amar a un solo hombre y a…
odiarse de mil maneras distintas. Quien despertó en su día tanta rivalidad es Bill Cosey, el dueño de un hotel de la costa Este de Estados Unidos, que en los años cuarenta era el lugar. de encuentro de la gente de color con dinero y con ganas de divertirse. Bill murió hace años, dejando un reguero de recuerdos y un testamento confuso que obliga a las dos enemigas a convivir bajo el mismo techo en una mansión destartalada, donde alimentan su antigua rabia con gestos despechados y palabras amargas. Pero ¿quiénes son en realidad Heed y Christine? ¿Qué relación las une? Toni Morrison llevará al lector hasta el tiempo en que eran niñas y amigas inseparables, y le presentará a otras mujeres y hombres que conocieron a Bill, un fantasma que toma cuerpo gracias al amor que otros le entregaron en su día. "Amor es una excelente novela que combina magistralmente diálogo, introspección, denuncia social y lirismo." RAFAEL NARBONA, El Mundo "Amor es una novela de las que dejan huella. Dolorosa y bellísima escrita." JUANA SALABERTOjos azules
By Toni Morrison. 1970
Pecola es una niña pequeña que vive con sus padres y tiene una prima que se llama Claudia. Le gustan…
las muñecas y las caléndulas, que no le gustan a nadie excepto a ella. Pecola es negra y cree que es fea porque no se parece a Shirley Temple. Y tiene un truco para desaparecer cuando sus padres se pelean o su padre la molesta por las noches: piensa en que tiene unos preciosos ojos azules y que todo el mundo admira su belleza y que las otras niñas la envidian. Pero ese sueño nunca se convertirá en realidad y Pecola seguirá atrapada en la triste vida que le ha tocado en suerte. En esta primera novela, Toni Morrison, la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993, parte de la realidad de una chiquilla desgraciada para tratar temas muy diversos, como el concepto de belleza impuesto, la voz femenina o la infancia truncada, y lo consigue con una historia dura y deliciosa al mismo tiempo.Volver
By Toni Morrison. 2011
Por medio de la historia de un ex combatiente en la guerra de Corea y su intento por reconciliarse con…
la vida, la premio Nobel de Literatura hace un reflejo de la Norteamérica más profunda. El cuerpo de un amigo destrozado por la metralla, la voz de un hombre que pide clemencia, la mano de una niña que asoma escarbando entre la basura para encontrar algo de comer...Hay imágenes que vuelven una y otra vez a la mente de Frank Money, un veterano de la guerra de Corea que ahora vuelve a Estados Unidos en busca de olvido y afecto. Corren los años cincuenta del siglo pasado y las heridas de Frank no son solo físicas: su patria es racista, su familia ha acumulado mucho odio, y el regreso parece más un camino hacia el infierno que una vuelta al hogar. Su destino es Georgia porque Frank quiere rescatar y devolver a casa a su hermana Cee, casada con un chulo que la abandonó a los pocos días de la boda, y empleada en casa de un médicosin escrúpulos. Es la determinación por salvar a esa mujer frágil lo que llevará a Frank a asumir sus culpas y saldar cuentas con lo que fue su vida. Ahí, en ese ir y venir de emociones hondas, brilla el talento de Toni Morrison, una mujer que lleva el dolor en la punta de los dedos y lo gobierna con pocas y buenas palabras. «A mis ochenta y un años, me siento atenta, vital, yo diría que espléndida... cuando escribo.»Toni Morrison Reseña:«Morrison ha encontrado una voz y un estilo puro y directo... ha desvelado las formas en las que la violencia se trenza con la pasión para redimir un pasado que vuelve y duele.»Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesBeloved: Reading Guide Edition (Tiempos Modernos Ser.)
By Toni Morrison. 1987
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