Author: Toni Morrison

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lectu …

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relation …

A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Pr …

What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random …

The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare’s Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traor , and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison …

Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years.’–Publishers Weekly ‘All poetr …

Die amerikanische Literaturnobelpreis-Trägerin Toni Morrison hat ihr Leben als Schriftstellerin der Rassenfrage und dem Rassismus gewidmet. Nun meldet sie sich mit klugen, schneidend klaren Worten zu …

«Solomons Lied», in den USA 1977 erschienen, war – nach «Sehr blaue Augen» und «Sula» – Toni Morrisons dritter Roman, in dem sie mit magischer Klugheit und souveräner Phantasie die Familie der Deads …

Es scheint, als läge ein Fluch über dem Städtchen Ruby, Oklahoma. Dessen Bewohner, Nachkommen ehemaliger Sklaven, bilden eine verschworene Gemeinschaft. Siebzehn Meilen weiter, in einem verlassenen K …

Fünf Frauen zwischen Leidenschaft, Macht und Emanzipation: In einem vielfältigen, fast ein Jahrhundert umspannenden Geflecht erzählt ‘Liebe’ von fünf Frauen, die vom gleichen Mann besessen waren – od …

‘Als ich herkam’, sagt Florens, die Erzählerin dieses Romans, ‘war ich, nach meinen Zähnen zu urteilen, sieben oder acht. Seither haben wir achtmal Pflaumenmarmelade gekocht. Also muss ich sechzehn s …

Eine Party in einem Mietshaus in der Lenox Avenue, Harlem, 1926: Die schwarzen Bewohner lassen sich mitreißen vom Hoffnungsrhythmus der Zeit, des ‘Jazz Age’. Plötzlich ein Schuß – die sahnefarbene ac …

Das Vermächtnis von Toni Morrison: Dieser Band versammelt Essays, Reden und Vorträge aus einem halben Jahrhundert. Toni Morrison befasst sich mit umstrittenen gesellschaftlichen Fragen, die zeitleben …

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th …

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A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader i …

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The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines …

The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a w …

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The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank Mc Court, Annie Dillard, and many more.   For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking a …

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In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist …

‘A beautiful and important book’ The Times 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’s life changes …

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. He shapes their yearnings …

Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the …

An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings tog …

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child …

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of …

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays eac …

Joe Trace in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling …

‘Extravagantly beautiful… Enormously, achingly alive… A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other’s secret …

Into a white millionaire’s Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there s Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Flor …

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America …

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 l …

An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morris …

She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words. – Oprah Winfrey A vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated …

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"Some books are unreservedly forgotten; none are unreservedly remembered."-W. H. Auden"A room without books is like a body without a soul."-Cicero"The proper study of mankind …

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library Journal A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday …

A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America. Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in …

‘Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us’ Bernadine Evaristo Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls’ sh …

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This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muri …

Dorothy Parker lästert über Carson Mc Cullers und klagt über die vielen miesen Brotjobs zu Beginn ihrer Laufbahn, Elena Ferrante spricht über die Gedankensplitter, die am Anfang ihrer Texte stehen, u …

Die bekannte und hochaktuelle Essaysammlung der Nobelpreisträgerin in neuer Form: überarbeitet und sprachlich aktualisiert. Mit einem Nachwort von Sharon Dodua Otoo.  Überarbeitet und sprachlich aktu …

Die Wiederentdeckung von Toni Morrisons einziger Erzählung ist eine literarische Sensation und enthält die Quintessenz ihres Schaffens. Die Nobelpreisträgerin spielt darin mit unserer Wahrnehmung: Vo …

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________’To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect powe …

Das Romandebüt der Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison in neuer, zeitgemäßer Übersetzung und mit einem Vorwort von Alice Hasters. Morrison erzählt vom Aufwachsen in einer Welt, die von Ein- und Ausgrenz …

Zwei Mädchen, die zu Frauen heranwachsen. Zwei Freundinnen, die zu schlimmsten Feindinnen werden: Die fügsame Nel und die Rebellin Sula sind als junge Mädchen unzertrennlich, als sie in ärmlichen Ver …

Eine paradiesische Insel in der Karibik: In der Villa eines weißen Millionärsehepaars begegnen sich die schwarze Amerikanerin Jadine, Sorbonne-Absolventin, Kunsthistorikerin und Nichte des Butlerehep …

Em O livro das pessoas malvadas, a consagrada escritora Toni Morrison e seu filho Slade nos brindam com um olhar perspicaz e muito bem-humorado sobre a maneira como as crianças enxergam e lidam com a …

Toni Morrisons bekanntester Roman in Neuübersetzung von Tanja Handels. Beloved, Toni Morrisons bekanntestes Werk und einer der wichtigsten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts (The New York Times), erzählt mi …

In Liebe erzählt Toni Morrison über das Zusammenspiel von patriarchaler Macht, Obsession und Begehren. May, Christine, Heed, Junior und Vida könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein, doch die fünf Frauen …

Oklahoma, Mitte der Siebzigerjahre: In einem verlassenen Kloster suchen Frauen, Schwarze und weiße, Zuflucht. Sie sind Ausgestoßene aus der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, die sich im Umbruch befindet, …

Die Kraft der Wahrheit. Frank Money hat den Koreakrieg überlebt – als Einziger von drei Freiwilligen aus seinem Heimatort Lotus, Georgia. Die Stadt ist ein rassistisches Höllenloch, in das er nie meh …

‘This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.’ The Guardian Ripped from the world by her husband’s paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African …

‘This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.’ The Guardian Ripped from the world by her husband’s paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African …

‘The foreigner is within me, hence we’re all foreigners. If we’re all foreigners, there are no foreigners.’ – Julia Kristeva Strangers Within is an anthology exploring the idea of documentary as enco …

"The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world." -Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic America’s foremost novelist refle …