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Sula has the same power, the same beauty.

At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes....

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....

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis Dispatch

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger.
Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. As he journeys to his native Georgia in search of Cee, it becomes clear that their troubles began...

-They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair...

It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match."...