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Frank Money hat den Koreakrieg überlebt - als Einziger von drei Freiwilligen aus Lotus, Georgia. Nun findet er sich im segregierten, rassistischen Amerika der 1950er-Jahre wieder: getrennte Restaurants, Hotels, Waschräume und Drangsalierungen durch die Polizei. Dann erreicht ihn die Nachricht, dass seine geliebte kleine Schwester Cee sich in großer Gefahr befindet. Obwohl er nie mehr nach Lotus zurückwollte, muss er in seinen Heimatort reisen, zu seinem Elternhaus, wo bittere Geheimnisse ans Tageslicht kommen und wo er lernen wird, was es braucht, um zu heilen. Und was es bedeutet,...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe's house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word:...

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....

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...

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,...