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The Bluest Eye
《最蓝的眼睛》出版于1970年，是1993年诺贝尔文学奖获得者Toni Morrison的首部小说。小说讲述一个十一岁的美国黑人小女孩Pecola Breedlove对金发碧眼的渴望，希望自己的眼睛变蓝，这样她就变的漂亮，别人都会注意到她，她的世界也会因此不同。小说展现了她渴望深处的梦魇以及为了实现梦想的悲剧。
God Help the Child: A novel
A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year： San Francisco Chronicle， St. Louis Post-Dispatch， Kansas City StarAt 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.” A fiery and provocative novel， God Help the Child—the first book by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape， and misshape， the life of the adult.
A Mercy
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob 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, “with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady.” Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved. There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who’s spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens’ mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity through an African American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by fleeing back to Africa. The novel tells the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, a young man alienated from himself and estranged from his family, his community, and his historical and cultural roots. Author Toni Morrison, long renowned for her detailed imagery, visual language, and "righting" of black history, guides the protagonist along a 30-year journey that enables him to reconnect with his past and realize his self-worth.
Jazz
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
Paradise
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Sula
托妮莫里森（Toni Morrison）美国著名女作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州，曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑，后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等，囊括普利策小说奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评家协会奖三项美国最重要的图书大奖，1993年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
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Home (Vintage International)
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Tar Baby
The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people. The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art. Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son; he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege. As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart. Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power. length: (cm)20.1 width:(cm)13.2
Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations Series)
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
爵士乐
喬與維奧萊特彼此相愛，來到了充滿夢想的大都會， 但是愛破滅了，夢想消失了， 喬殺死了年僅十八歲的情婦， 維奧萊特則企圖在喪禮上破壞這女孩的屍體。 《爵士樂》以鮮明熱烈的音樂為背景描述著二○年代美國紐約黑人住宅區的生活型式，在一個充滿機會與誘惑的都會，一個吸引南方黑人尋找夢想的發源地。 這是一個關於三角戀、妒嫉、謀殺與挽回的故事；在性愛與精神上、奴隸與自由中、國家與城市裡；是身為一個男人和女人、美裔非洲人、甚至全人類的故事。 如同爵士樂狂野、渾沌的曲調，故事在過去記憶的回想與未來無知的期盼中貫穿著，摩里森以敘述者身份帶領我們進入魔幻的愛情悲劇。
Beloved宠儿 英文原版
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. 《宠儿》堪称美国黑人历史的一座纪念碑。主要情节取材于一个真实的历史故事。小说中的主人公——女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕只身从肯塔基的奴隶庄园逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提，奴隶主循踪追至，为了使儿女不再重复自己做奴隶的悲惨命运，她毅然杀死了自己的一个女儿。虽然这已是18年前的往事，但往事的梦魇一刻也不曾停止过对塞丝的纠缠。 十八年后，奴隶制早已废除，而被她杀死的女婴还魂归来，和塞丝、塞丝的女儿丹芙以及塞丝的情人保罗生活在同一幢房子里。 她以自己的出现日夜惩罚母亲当年的行为，不但加倍地向母亲索取着爱，甚至纠缠和引诱包罗，不择手段地扰乱和摧毁母亲刚刚回暖的生活。 往事的梦魇一刻也不曾停止过对塞丝的纠缠，全书充满苦涩的诗意和紧张的悬念。
Love 爱
May, 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 audacious vision from a master storyteller of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, and its dread - is rich in characters and dramatic events, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be. Sensual, elegiac and unforgettable, Love reflects the different facets of love, shifting from desire and lust and ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.
Please, Louise
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. On one gray afternoon， Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card and through the transformative power of books， what started out as a dull day turns into one of surprises， ideas， and imagination! Inspired by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison’s experience working in a library as a young girl， this engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading， the enchanting capacity of the imagination， and， of course， the splendor of libraries.
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