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'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to...
“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays,...
An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised...
Toni Morrison’s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up,...
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison...
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula...
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover...
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of...
Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a...
Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the...
A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than...
An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together thirteen essays, all written especially for this book, by...
Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture of the late 1970s,...
'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the...
A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious...
"Lulu Ann Bridewell est si noire de peau à la naissance que sa mère, Sweetness, n’éprouve pour elle que dégoût. Elle élève seule la fillette, avec dureté, répugnant à la toucher. Jusqu’au jour où Lulu Ann fait un faux témoignage contre une institutrice accusée de...
Playing in the Dark puise son origine dans une série de conférences sur le roman américain, données par Toni Morrison à l’université de Harvard. La lauréate du prix Nobel analyse le rôle attribué aux personnages noirs dans les oeuvres d’auteurs américains classiques,...
« Comment est-ce qu’on fait ? Je veux dire, comment est-ce qu’on fait pour que quelqu’un vous aime ? » Mal aimée, la jeune Pecola Breedlove rêve d’être vue autrement et de recevoir une plus grande attention. Bientôt, un seul désir anime la petite fille âgée de onze ans...
Toni Morrison analyse les mécanismes à l’oeuvre dans le racisme qui ont permis d’établir et de perpétuer la domination d’une seule catégorie d’individus. Dans sa quête de réponses, l’autrice se replonge dans ses souvenirs, mais également dans l’histoire, la politique,...
Plus d’une quarantaine de textes de Toni Morrison sont réunis dans ces pages. Des textes écrits durant plusieurs décennies et qui, chacun à sa façon, attestent de la généreuse intelligence de Toni Morrison. Elle débat et analyse des thèmes aussi variés que le rôle de...
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