Toni Morrison

Children spend the day with their grandmother, who ignores their mother's carefully planned schedule in favor of activities that are much more fun.

"Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades."--Publisher's description.

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...

Simplified Chinese edition of The Bluest Eye 诺贝尔文学奖得主托妮·莫里森首部长篇小说 黑人小姑娘佩科拉渴望拥有一双白人小女孩那样的蓝眼睛。如果她的眼睛是蓝色的，也许，她就会变漂亮，学校里的同学就不会再欺负她了。如果她有一双最蓝的眼睛，也许父亲就不再酗酒，母亲不再躲避自己的家人，哥哥也不会再离家出走。为此，她整夜祈求，可等待她的，却是一桩无人能够料想的悲剧……...

An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.