Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights...

'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'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,...

„Sehr blaue Augen“ ist der deutsche Titel des Romans „The Bluest Eye“ von Toni Morrison. Der Roman handelt von Pecola Breedlove, einem jungen afroamerikanischen Mädchen, das in den 1940er Jahren in Lorain, Ohio, lebt. Pecola wächst in...

In this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Frank Money is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. When Frank joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his...