W tej uroczo przewrotnej interpretacji klasycznej bajki autorzy biorą na warsztat problem tyranii.
Buńczuczny lew, samozwańczy król stworzeń, "zły jak żaden zwierz", uważa się za niezwyciężonego - aż do chwili, gdy cierń wbija mu się w łapę. Wówczas pomóc mu może jedynie słaba, mała mysz - w zamian za co lew będzie musiał cierpliwie znosić nienasycone mysie zapędy do władzy.

The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. For Sethe, Paul D. Halle and the others, the benign imprisonment of Sweet Home is destroyed. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby.

Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother.

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Language by Xiaolu Guo Death by Julian Barnes Love by Jeanette Winterson Home by Salman Rushdie