Toni Morrison

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 …

Packaged together in a single volume featuring easy-to-read type, a trio of fables follows themes of empowerment and triumph in the face of adversity, in a collection of stories in which familiar characters overcome adversity by tapping into inner strengths. 20,000 first printing.

Dans son onzième roman, qui se déroule à l’époque actuelle, Toni Morrison décrit sans concession des personnages longtemps prisonniers de leurs souvenirs et de leurs traumatismes. Au centre du récit, une jeune femme qui se fait appeler Bride. La noirceur de sa peau lui confère une beauté hors norme. Au fil des ans et …