Name: Paradise (Vintage International)
Price: 13.76 GBP
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Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780804169882

portada Paradise (Vintage International)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Publisher

Vintage International

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7 x 13.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780804169882

Synopsis "Paradise (Vintage International)"

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

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - Nueva York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, conocida bajo el seudónimo Toni Morrison, es una narradora afroamericana. Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.

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