{"product_id":"the-bluest-eye-toni-morrison","title":"The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead the searing first novel from the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterised her writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When she arrived, with her first novel,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben Okri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65924821680477,"sku":"K009185808","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/0918580800001A.jpg?v=1789423892","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-bluest-eye-toni-morrison","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}