The Bluest Eye
Ausgezeichnet: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
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Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Here, Morrison s writing is so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry (The New York Times).
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So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. The New York Times
A profoundly successful work of fiction. . . . Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience. The Detroit Free Press
This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl s universe. Newsweek