Autor: Toni Morrison
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1997
Editora: Alfred A. Knopf
Páginas: 318
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-679-43374-0
Sinopse: "They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise 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 that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
Autor: Toni Morrison
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1977
Editora: Alfred A. Knopf
Páginas: 337
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-452-26011-6
Sinopse: Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
A autora e a obra: Toni Morrison é uma autora norte americana de 83 anos. Galardoada com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1993 e com apenas 10 romances escritos, não compreendo como apenas 3 destes se encontram traduzidos em Portugal.
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