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-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...

One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star

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. And finally, Bride's mother herself,...

In ihrem eindrücklichen Debütroman erzählt Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison von zwei kleinen Mädchen, die in der Kleinstadt Lorain, Ohio, gemeinsam aufwachsen. Claudia hasst blonde Puppen, zerstört sie sogar. Pecola vergöttert Shirley Temple und wünscht sich selbst nichts so sehr wie blaue Augen. Doch in diesem Herbst 1941 wird Pecolas Wunsch nicht in Erfüllung gehen, ihr Leben wird sich auf andere, auf sehr schmerzhafte Weise verändern.

«An der kühnen Komposition der verschiedenen Episoden und an der Musikalität der Sprache - die Tanja Handels' Neuübersetzung sehr...

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 the world, and ourselves.

As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political developments--including the passage of the Patriot Act--have shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Burn This Book features a sterling...