Toni Morrison

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of …