Results for 'toni morrison'

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  1. The Fire Next Time
    1. James , Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time

    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate'Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.

    € 8,00
  2. The Bluest Eye
    1. Toni , Morrison

    The Bluest Eye

    New edition of this Toni Morrison title, published to coincide the release of the major film version of "Beloved".

    € 13,00
  3. Wild Seed
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Wild Seed

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL (1): It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Together they will change the world.

    € 14,95
  4. Dead and Alive
    1. Zadie Smith

    Dead and Alive

    Smith gives a masterclass in the modern essay. In Dead and Alive, Zadie Smith once again confirms that she is among the most expert essayists of her generation . . . Even when she writs about death, disillusionment, or the absurdity of fame, “protect your consciousness,” she advises, and this book feels like an act of protection in itself – an argument for stillness, attention, and moral imagination in a distracted world. Smith has written a generous, fiercely intelligent collection that reminds us why essays matter. They keep us awake, alive, and, in Smith’s words, “just human enough to hope”

    € 23,50
  5. When I Dare to Be Powerful
    1. Audre Lorde

    When I Dare to Be Powerful

    Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.

    € 10,95
  6. Bestiary
    1. K-Ming Chang

    Bestiary

    The blazing debut novel about queer desire and buried secrets

    Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body.

    € 13,95
  7. The Bluest Eye
    1. Toni , Morrison

    The Bluest Eye

    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-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone - like her white schoolfellows - worthy of care and attention. Immersing us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression Ohio, Toni Morrison's indelible debut reveals the nightmare at the heart of Pecola's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfilment.**AS FEATURED IN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB**'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That's why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them' Afua Hirsch'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post'When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben OkriWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

    € 13,00
  8. How to Read Now
    1. Elaine , Castillo

    How to Read Now

    Funny, smart, brilliant . . . a tour de force' Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions'Insanely erudite, and absolutely necessary for our times' Gina Apostol, author of Gun Dealer's Daughter 'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize -winning author of Less'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries'A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant war cry' Chris Power, author of A Lonely ManHow many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work. How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with each other.

    € 16,50
  9. The Fire Next Time
    1. James , Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time

    Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

    € 13,00
  10. Dead and Alive
    1. Zadie Smith

    Dead and Alive

    Smith gives a masterclass in the modern essay. In Dead and Alive, Zadie Smith once again confirms that she is among the most expert essayists of her generation . . . Even when she writs about death, disillusionment, or the absurdity of fame, “protect your consciousness,” she advises, and this book feels like an act of protection in itself – an argument for stillness, attention, and moral imagination in a distracted world. Smith has written a generous, fiercely intelligent collection that reminds us why essays matter. They keep us awake, alive, and, in Smith’s words, “just human enough to hope”

    € 30,50
  11. Patternmaster
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Patternmaster

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL (4): an all-powerful ruler's son vies for control over humanity.

    € 14,95
  12. Clay's Ark
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Clay's Ark

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL (3): a powerful story of survival in unprecedented times.

    € 14,95