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.
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.
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.
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later... Læs mere
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
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
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... Læs mere
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and... Læs mere
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