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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in "The New York T

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 l

Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his li

Read 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-Depress

The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards g

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new li

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movemen

Toni Morrison’s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wa

What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life cha

Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Through her inves

Twyla en Roberta zijn even oud en kennen elkaar al vanaf hun achtste, toen ze allebei vier maanden lang in een daklozenopvang woonden. Toen waren ze o

Amerika, de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw. De gevluchte slavin Sethe vermoordt uit wanhoop haar dochtertje Beminde om haar te behoeden voor de

<p>Jadine Childs is een zwart fotomodel met een witte opdrachtgever, een witte vriend en een jas gemaakt van negentig perfecte zeehondenhuiden.

<i>Lied van Solomon</i> is het verhaal van Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead, erfgenaam van de rijkste zwarte familie in het Midden-Westen van Amerika.

Eind negentiende eeuw besluit Popke Bakker, zoon van de kastelein van herberg ‘De Drie Zwaantjes’ in Langweer, met zijn vrouw Dieuwke en hun negen kin