New Releases by Toni Morrison

Dura y tierna a la vez, La noche de los niños está aquí para dar energía a la voz de las mujeres y trazar caminos insólitos que nos liberen de la soledad. Por la Premio Nobel de Literatura Toni Morrison. «Toni Morrison fue un gigante de su época y de la nuestra. Todo el mundo debería leer Beloved.» Margaret Atwood « No es culpa mía. A mí no pueden acusarme. Yo no hice nada y no tengo ni idea de cómo pasó. Una hora después de que me la sacaran de entre las piernas ya me había dado cuenta de que había un problema. Un problema grave. Era tan negra que me asustó. Un negro del color de la medianoche...» Quien habla es la madre de Bride, una niña que ha heredado de sus ancestros un color de piel tan negro que sorprende a toda su familia, de piel clara, y provoca el abandono del padre. Pasados los años, la chiquilla se ha transformado en una hermosa empresaria de éxito, pero la alargada sombra de la infancia planea sobre su vida adulta y la de su pareja. Un buen día y sin explicación alguna, Bride asiste impotente al abandono de Booker, el hombre al que ama. Otra vez el rechazo, otra vez la culpa... y por fin una viaje iniciático en busca de la redención, que solo llegará cuando en la negrura asome el verdadero yo de Bride. En la presente edición, las palabras de Toni Morrison van acompañadas de unas espléndidas ilustraciones de Óscar Astromujoff, quien siempre ha interpretado de la mejor manera el mensaje de la gran autora. «Siempre hace falta más pasión, más talento..., para contar lo que nos ha ocurrido en las noches oscuras y en los días soleados.» Toni Morrison Reseñas: «Uno de los grandes temas que atraviesa la obra de Toni Morrison, como una melodía recurrente, es la influencia que el pasado ejerce sobre el presente. En La noche de los niños, con una escritura que gana el ritmo al avanzar el libro, Morrison obra su magia narrativa y hace un cuento tan contundente como feroz.» Michiko Kakutani, El Cultural de El Mundo «Morrison ha construido una trama sobre la redención de los errores del pasado. En La noche de los niños, su novela más reciente, Morrison retoma una secuela psicológica de la experiencia de la segregación y el racismo: el complejo de inferioridad. Su particular forma de articular la cultura oral, el folklore, la tradición y la influencia de clásicos como Faulkner o Woolf hacen de la obra de Toni Morrison un referente.» Ana Llurba, Ahora semanal «Siempre adoré su franqueza y admiré la forma en que ocupó su lugar en el mundo. Creí en ella.» Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie «Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguíamos: nos enseñó la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se une a un gran corazón y a una mente feroz.» Salman Rushdie «Su serenidad fue la base para una larga carrera como novelista y persona pública.» Harold Bloom «Toni era un alma comprensiva con los escritores más jóvenes como yo. [...] Una vez escribí que a Thomas Hardy le habría encantado La isla de los caballeros, pero debería haber dicho que a Hardy le habría encantado esta escritora.» John Irving

Jadine Childs is een zwart fotomodel met een witte opdrachtgever, een witte vriend en een jas gemaakt van negentig perfecte zeehondenhuiden. Son is een zwarte voortvluchtige man die alles belichaamt wat zij verafschuwt én begeert. Morrison volgt hun affaire, die zich afspeelt tussen het Caribisch gebied, Manhattan en het diepe zuiden van de VS. Gaandeweg ontstaan er nieuwe banden, gaan zowel antipathieën als sympathieën schuiven, worden beeldvorming en zelfbedrog genadeloos doorgeprikt. Elk personage wordt geconfronteerd met de eigen vooroordelen, met (vermeend) verraad en met de vele nuances binnen de verhoudingen tussen zwarten en witten, tussen zwarten onderling, tussen witten onderling, tussen meester en dienaar, tussen man en vrouw.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him, Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way, he leaves his Michigan home for the South, retracing the steps of his forebears in search of his own buried heritage and is introduced to an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins; the inhabitants of a fully realised black world. Evocative and kaleidoscopic, Song of Solomon is a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age tale.

Gud hjälpe barnet är Toni Morrisons första samtidsroman. I denna sparsmakade och skoningslösa berättelse åskådliggör hon hur sår man tillfogas i barndomen kan få förödande konsekvenser och forma en människas hela liv.I centrum står Bride, en ung, rättfram, vacker kvinna. Hennes fantastiska, djupt mörka hudfärg är en del av hennes skönhet och samtidigt något som har fått hennes ljushyade mamma att ta avstånd från henne och förvägra henne både kärlek och ömhet.Bland karaktärerna finns också Booker, mannen som Bride älskar men förlorar på grund av händelser i det förflutna. Rain, den mystiska vita flickan som dyker upp i Brides liv. Och så Sweetness, Brides mamma, som slutligen tvingas komma till insikt om att det man utsätter barn för har stor betydelse. Och att risken finns att de aldrig glömmer ...En vass och provocerande roman som tillför en helt ny dimension till Toni Morrisons unika författarskap.

«L’escriptora més propera que té Amèrica a una novel·lista nacional», segons el New York Times. Una intensa narració coral sobre la fragilitat de la infància i les contradiccions de l’edat adulta, el racisme i una societat que se’ns mostra corrupta, malalta, pràcticament maleïda. La Lula Ann va ser una nena poc estimada. El seu color de pell, negre com la nit, fou viscut com una creu a la família, de to més tènue, quasi blanc. Avui, als vint-i tres anys, la Lula Ann es fa dir Bride i llueix amb orgull la seva contundent negror i el seu rotund èxit laboral. Aquest orgull, però, no podrà refrenar el floriment dels traumes infantils i de noves nafres emocionals: el rebuig familiar que va marcar els seus primers anys; el testimoni, quan era petita, d’uns successos aberrants; l’inesperat abandonament de la seva parella actual; la influència de la Rain, la nena amb una dolorosa història per oblidar... Una provocadora i absorbent novel·la de la premi Nobel Toni Morrison, gairebé un tresor patrimonial als Estats Units, que retrata la complexitat d’uns individus amb arestes inassumibles, membres d’una societat que els convida a l’aïllament, a la incomprensió més profunda. «No és culpa meva. O sigui que no me’n podeu acusar. Jo no ho vaig fer i no tinc ni idea de com va poder passar. No em va caler més d’una hora després que me la traguessin d’entre les cames per adonar-me que alguna cosa anava malament. Molt malament. Era tan negra que em va fer por.»

A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. 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, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic tale, the Morrisons and Pascal Lemaitre take a hilarious look at bullying. The cocky lion, the self-proclaimed "baddest in the land," believes himself invincible until he gets a thorn stuck in his paw. Only a weak little mouse can help him, but then the lion must indulge the mouse's ridiculous pride and appetite for power. Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of readers and listeners of all ages. We, the creators of the Who's Got Game? series were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables—their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. Anything can happen!

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which 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. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

L’esperada nova novel·la de Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, una figura literària indiscutible dels nostres dies, ens regala una peça d’orfebreria, delicada però punyent. La història d’un home que torna als Estats Units després de la guerra de Corea; la història d’un país que conviu amb l’odi racial. Situada als anys cinquanta, les ferides del protagonista no són només físiques: viu en una pàtria racista, la seva família no passa per un bon moment i el retorn sembla més un camí cap a l’infern que una tornada a la llar. “Una història de punyent esperança sobre la possibilitat de sobreviure dins una ombra de pau.” The Washington Post

The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.

Uno dei romanzi più intensi del premio Nobel per la Letteratura Toni Morrison. Schiavitù, maternità e racconto scritto della propria vita: sono le tre fasi che Sethe - indomabile donna nera all'epoca della guerra civile americana - dovrà attraversare per conquistare la libertà.

Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and go where she wishes. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others? Will Little Cloud agree there is strength in unity and change her ways? A fresh take on a classic story, Little Cloud and Lady Wind will teach kids how to work together to achieve their goals.

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into her viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture.

An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?

Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.

Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African American experience

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—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. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).