{"product_id":"recitatif-toni-morrison","title":"Recitatif (Toni Morrison)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine Evaristo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them is undeniable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRecitatif\u003c\/i\u003e keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This story is a masterful exploration of what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, of race and the relationships that shape our lives.  Now with a new introduction by Zadie Smith, it is as radically compelling and relevant today as it was when first written nearly forty years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Her work is an act of giving her community back to itself, so that people - African-Americans but the diaspora as well - can see and witness themselves' Diana Evans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eToni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.\nZadie Smith is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e; four collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind, Feel Free\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIntimations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDead and Alive\u003c\/i\u003e; a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union\u003c\/i\u003e; and the play, \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Willesden\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 96 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63606058942813,"sku":"K094605665","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/239410-9460566500001A.jpg?v=1771974332","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/recitatif-toni-morrison","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}