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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...

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...

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 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.

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...

Toni Morrisons großes Epos über eine von Rassismus und Bigotterie bedrohte Gruppe von Frauen und die Folgen der Versklavung - mit einem erstmals

Oklahoma, Mitte der siebziger Jahre: In einem verlassenen Kloster suchen Frauen, Schwarze und weiße, Zuflucht. Sie sind Ausgestoßene aus der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, die sich im Umbruch befindet, voller Gegensätze wie Rassismus und Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Misogynie und Feminismus, Individualismus und der Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit. Das friedliche Leben im Kloster findet bald ein brutales Ende: Die Einwohner der benachbarten Stadt...