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Die bekannte und hochaktuelle Essaysammlung der Nobelpreisträgerin in neuer Form: überarbeitet und sprachlich aktualisiert. Mit einem Nachwort der Journalistin und politischen Aktivistin Sharon Dodua Otoo. «Im Dunkeln spielen» ist ein herausragendes Werk der Literaturkritik, das ein neues Kapitel im Dialog über Rasssismus aufschlug - und verspricht, auch heute noch die Art und Weise zu verändern, wie wir Literatur lesen. Eine glanzvolle Ess...

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A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison's first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings...

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Nobel ve Pulitzer ödüllü Toni Morrisondan toplumun dislanmis, horgörülmüs, ötekilestirilmis kesimlerinin yakin tarihine taniklik eden modern bir klasik daha Süleymanin Sarkisi.Tahakkümden kurtulmaya, irkciligin sosyal dokuya islemis tezahürleriyle bas etmeye calisan siyahilerin mücadelesinden bir kesit sunan, aci gercekler ve efsanelerle örülü bu hikaye, Afro-Amerikali kimligi kesfetmenin ve köklere dönmenin dolambacli yollarini arsinliyor.Kad...

The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is ...

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time.In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they...

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone Knopf hardcover for the first time, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable ...

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«Selbstachtung» ist das Vermächtnis der Nobelpreisträgerin. Rassismus, Gewalt gegen Schwarze, Diskriminierung von Afroamerikaner*innen sind die Lebensthemen der großen amerikanischen Schriftstellerin. Dieser Band versammelt Essays, Reden und Vorträge aus einem halben Jahrhundert. Toni Morrison befasst sich mit umstrittenen gesellschaftlichen Fragen, die zeitlebens ihre Themen gewesen sind: dem Alltagsrassismus in Amerika, der Assimilation des ...

A story of Ian's childhood and who he was before his struggles with schizophrenia. The age of Ian's onset of the disease and what he had endured through his many assessments. The effects his illness had on his family, with spouse, friends, and the many other relationships and the social stigma he had encountered throughout his lifetime. The story tells of Ian's many high's and low's with several hospitalizations arising from numerous medicatio...

A story of Ian's childhood and who he was before his struggles with schizophrenia. The age of Ian's onset of the disease and what he had endured through his many assessments. The effects his illness had on his family, with spouse, friends, and the many other relationships and the social stigma he had encountered throughout his lifetime. The story tells of Ian's many high's and low's with several hospitalizations arising from numerous medicatio...

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone Knopf hardcover for the first time.In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow ol...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIEPecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come t...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTOSethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years.

At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith."She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." --Oprah WinfreyThis inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the ...

Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "I can't imagine American literature without it." Nearly two decades later, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years.Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning work-first published in 1987-brought the wrenching experience of slavery into the literature of our time, enlarging our comprehension of America'...