Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over a disputed memory. An ex-slave is haunted by a lonely, rebukeful ghost, bent on bringing their past home. Strange and unexpected, yet always stirring, Morrisons writing on race sinks us deep into the heart and mind of our troubled humanity.
Includes selections from the booksSong of Solomon,The Bluest Eye,Belovedby Toni Morrison
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the worlds greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Also in the Vintage Minis series: Sistersby Louisa May Alcott Loveby Jeanette Winterson Babiesby Anne Enright Languageby Xiaolu Guo
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye, Beloved(made into a major film),ParadiseandLove.She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
