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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

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

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

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

Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to lo... 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

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

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 haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. 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

The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her moth... Meer

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes irrevocably. She ends up part of Jacob's hous... Meer

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child-the first novel 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 th... Meer

New York Times BestsellerPecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for nor... Meer