Paradise is a 1997 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. According to the author, it completes a "trilogy" that begins with Beloved and includes Jazz. The book was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection January 1998. Morrison wanted to call the novel War but …
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – et même L – sont des femmes obsédées par Bill Cosey. Cosey incarne leurs désirs de père, mari, amant, protecteur, ami, désirs qui dominent les vies de ces femmes bien après sa mort. A la fois le vide et le centre de leur histoire, puissant, charismatique, ombrageux, monstrueux, il …
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García …
En 1926, Joe Trace assassine sa jeune maîtresse Dorcus. En proie au désespoir et à la jalousie, Violette, la femme de Joe, se précipite à son tour sur la dépouille de sa rivale, dans le but de la tuer une seconde fois. Bouleversés par la violence et l’horreur de leurs gestes, les deux époux vont impitoyablement …