Toni Morrison

Amada é o livro mais conhecido da escritora americana Toni Morrison, prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1993, Amada ganhou o Pulitzer de 1988.

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A Mercy is Toni Morrison's 9th novel. It was published in 2008. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery in early America. It is both the story of mothers and daughters and the story of a primitive America. It made the New York Times Book Review list of "10 Best Books of 2008" as chosen by the paper's …

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 …

Bill Cosey era um homem de personalidade forte, dono de um hotel onde, nas décadas de 40 e 50, apresentavam-se os principais músicos de jazz, atraindo clientes ricos e poderosos da comunidade negra norte-americana. Viúvo, com ele moravam a nora, May, e a neta, Christine (o filho morrera de pneumonia), que ficam …