Toni Morrison

Jazz é um romance visceral que recria a temática e a forma da música de blues. Nele Toni Morrison fala sem reservas de sua angústia com as injustiças praticadas contra mulheres negras e afirma-se como a última escritora clássica americana, na tradição de Poe, Melville, Twain e Faulkner. Em 1926, o Harlem, bairro negro …

Uma tentativa de dramatizar a opressão que o preconceito racial pode causar na mais vulnerável das criaturas: uma menina negra.Considerado um dos livros mais impactantes de Toni Morrison, o primeiro romance da autora conta a história de Pecola Breedlove, uma menina negra que sonha com uma beleza diferente da sua. …

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 …

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 …

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a …

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As …