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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 verbindet ihre Besessenheit von Bill Cosey. Auf den reichen Besitzer eines Hotels, das er während der Depression der Dreißigerjahre erworben und zu einem Ferienparadies für Schwarze Amerikaner:innen gemacht hat, richten sich die Sehnsüchte der Frauen nach einem Vater, Ehemann, Liebhaber, Beschützer oder Freund. Auch lange nach seinem Tod bleiben die Sehnsüchte lebendig....

In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.

Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as...

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 that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

National Bestseller

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new...

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths....