Paradise

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ToNi Morrison's latest literary triumph, Paradise ls structlred arolnd eight chapters, each bearing a
woman's name. each adding a difeerent point of n'lew to the narrative. its .set in Ruby, a fictitious black town founded by proud. racially pure men who emerged from the fight against slavery only to find there was yet another hierarchy — this time ba.sed on gradations of skin colour — to keep them dow n. vet the myth of ruby's own racial genealogy. its piety and self-righteousness is fragile. and the women who skirt the towns boundaries. preferring to take refuge in their own company threaten to blow it apart' Fiona Morrow, Time Out
'in challenging complacencies and opening up new spaces in
American narrative fiction, [Morrison] has no peer'
Maya JaGGI, Independent A BREATHTAKING NEW MASTERPIECE BY THIS MUCH LOVED
author Exploring the cultural, religious and racial clashes that exist in American society, this is a wonderfully absorbing story'
Katl Figls, Elk
"Morrison's... Tovább

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ToNi Morrison's latest literary triumph, Paradise ls structlred arolnd eight chapters, each bearing a
woman's name. each adding a difeerent point of n'lew to the narrative. its .set in Ruby, a fictitious black town founded by proud. racially pure men who emerged from the fight against slavery only to find there was yet another hierarchy — this time ba.sed on gradations of skin colour — to keep them dow n. vet the myth of ruby's own racial genealogy. its piety and self-righteousness is fragile. and the women who skirt the towns boundaries. preferring to take refuge in their own company threaten to blow it apart' Fiona Morrow, Time Out
'in challenging complacencies and opening up new spaces in
American narrative fiction, [Morrison] has no peer'
Maya JaGGI, Independent A BREATHTAKING NEW MASTERPIECE BY THIS MUCH LOVED
author Exploring the cultural, religious and racial clashes that exist in American society, this is a wonderfully absorbing story'
Katl Figls, Elk
"Morrison's themes — race, faith, love, sex — may be universal, but
her best writing stems from the particular. making this a novel that is at once deeply serious and unexpectedly beautiful Melissa Denhs, Harpers & Queen
'Paradise is the strangest and most original book that Morrison
has written it symbolically explodes one of the myths of race.
And it is Morrison at her novelistic best' Louis MhNAND, New Yorker
'Paradise is superbly well made, effortless in its range but tightly focused and pow^erfully real, wearing its mission lightly'
Jan DalLLY, New Statesman
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ISBN 0-09-976821-6
Fiction
9780099768210 Vissza