Alle boeken van Toni Morrison

Amerika, de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw. De gevluchte slavin Sethe vermoordt uit wanhoop haar dochtertje Beminde om haar te behoeden voor de slavernij. Maar Beminde keert terug als kwade gees... Meer

Lied van Solomon is het verhaal van Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead, erfgenaam van de rijkste zwarte familie in het Midden-Westen van Amerika. Hij groeit op te midden van zijn zwijgende zusjes, een passieve moed... Meer

Een van Amerika’s belangrijkste auteurs schrijft in De herkomst van Anderen over de thema’s die haar werk kenmerken: ras, grenzen, migratie, angst, het verlangen om ergens thuis te zijn. Wat is ras en... Meer

Amerika, de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw. De gevluchte slavin Sethe vermoordt uit wanhoop haar dochtertje Beminde om haar te behoeden voor de slavernij. Maar Beminde keert terug als kwade gees... Meer

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 life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is... Meer

A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes... Meer

Begins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his frien... Meer

Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funer... Meer

As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula retur... Meer

'A book full of marvels' New YorkerThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She want... Meer

'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni MorrisonZala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy... Meer

Is who we are really only skin deep? In this book, the author unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. It also includes the story of a young black girl longing... Meer

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America... Meer

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose to... Meer

A stunning gift package of prize-winning Beloved to commemorate Toni Morrison.'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours ... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slaver... Meer