Toni Morrison

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...

At the center: a young 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. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come...

Jamey Tortoise is smarter than anyone else and Jimi Hare is faster, but when a race is announced each consults a reporter about how to get what he really wants when and if he should win in this updated twist on the familiar fable.

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

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……...

Toni Morrisons richtungsweisendes Debüt erzählt von Pecola Breedlove, einem kleinen Mädchen, das sich nach nichts so sehr sehnt wie nach blondem Haar und blauen Augen. Sie will schön sein wie Kinderstar Shirley Temple. Dieser Traum ist ihr einziger Ausweg aus der gewaltvollen Welt, in der sie aufwächst. Doch in diesem Herbst 1941 in der Kleinstadt Lorain in Ohio wird Pecolas Wunsch nicht in Erfüllung gehen, ihr Leben wird sich auf andere, auf...