Toni Morrison (12 kníh)
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Toni Morrison A Mercy ENIn the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh, he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens…
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Toni Morrison A Mercy ENIn the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh , he takes a small slave girl, in part…
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Toni Morrison God Help the Child ENWhat you do to children matters. And they might never forget. 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. Booker cannot fathom Bride's depths, with his own…
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Toni Morrison God Help the Child ENSweetness 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. Booker cannot fathom Bride's depths, with his own love-lorn past bending him out of shape. Can they find a way…
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Toni Morrison Home ENIt begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. Come fast. She be dead if you tarry. And that is it all it takes.The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist…
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Toni Morrison Jazz ENJoe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life.
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Toni Morrison Love ENMay, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet Cosey himself is at the mercy of a troubled past and a spellbinding woman, 'a sporting woman', named Celestial. This…
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Toni Morrison MilosrdenstvoPlné krásy, výstrednosti, zhonu, smiechu, zmyselnosti, plnokrvných citov... Dielo Toni Morrisonovej je pozoruhodné a jedinečné... Pôsobivá tragédia držiteľky Nobelovej ceny a autorky románu Milovaná, vydestilovaná do majstrovského dielka. Milosrdenstvo odhaľuje to, čo leží pod povrchom zotročenia. Vo svojej podstate je to však rozporuplný, znepokojujúci príbeh matky, čo odvrhne dcéru v úsilí zachrániť ju a dcéry,…
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Toni Morrison Mouth Full of BloodSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation...
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Toni Morrison Song of Solomon ENSong of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930`s to the 1960`s in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned to escape the tyranny of his father. So while Guitar joins a…
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Toni Morrison The Bluest EyeRead the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those ...
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