Sethe undslipper sit liv som slave på Sweet Home, men atten år senere hjemsøges hun stadig af minderne fra det smukke, forfærdelige sted. Minderne om Elskede, det eneste ord hun nåede at kalde sit døde barn, som hun måtte forlade i jorden på Sweet Home.
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter,... Læs mere
Toni Morrison’s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should.
A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.
Begins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society... Læs mere
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula... Læs mere
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes irrevocably. She ends up part of... Læs mere
A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey.
The new novel from the author of Beloved The past has a hold like no other...Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now... Læs mere
I Forestillingen om de andre retter nobelprisvinder Toni Morrison sit undersøgende blik mod de emner, som har været omdrejningspunkter for hendes forfatterskab og genstand for... Læs mere
Pecola vokser op i de raceadskildte amerikanske 1940’ere. Overalt møder hun modstand, foragtes både af sorte og hvide. Men i sine drømme har hun blå, blå øjne, som sin højtelskede lyshårede dukke. Morrisons debutroman fra 1970.
Nel Wright og Sula Peace vokser op sammen i Ohio som tætte veninder. De deler en hemmelighed som former dem, selv som voksne, hvor Nel bliver en afgørende figur blandt sorte amerikanere, mens Sula er udstødt.