Name: Recitatif: A Story
Price: 14.04 GBP
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Author: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780593315033

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Introduction by

Zadie Smith

Publisher

Knopf Publishing Group

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

17.8 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9780593315033

Synopsis "Recitatif: A Story"

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner--for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith "A puzzle of a story, then--a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an 'experiment' she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." --Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing 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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Zadie Smith

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(Londres, 1975) estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. En el año 2003 fue elegida Mejor Novelista Joven Británico por la prestigiosa revista Granta, hecho que se repitió en 2013. En 2006 la revista Time la incluyó en su lista de las cien personas más influyentes del año. Zadie Smith es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature. Ha ganado numerosos premios literarios.

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