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Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child"--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget." A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison.

'What you do to children matters. And they might never forget'. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Booker cannot fathom Bride's depths, with his own love-lorn past bending him out of shape. Can they find a way through the damage wrought on their blameless childhood souls, to light and happiness, free from pain? Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative new novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations.

Dans son onzième roman, qui se déroule à l'époque actuelle, Toni Morrison décrit sans concession des personnages longtemps prisonniers de leurs souvenirs et de leurs traumatismes. Au centre du réc

Dura y tierna a la vez,La noche de los niños está aquí para dar energía a la voz de las mujeres y trazar caminos insólitos que nos liberen de la soledad. Por la Premio Nobel de Literatura Toni Morrison.Toni Morrison fue un gigante de su epoca y de la nuestra. Todo el mundo deberia leerBeloved.Margaret AtwoodNo es culpa mia. A mi no pueden acusarme. Yo no hice nada y no tengo ni idea de como paso. Una hora despues de que me la sacaran de entre las piernas ya me habia dado cuenta de que habia un problema. Un problema grave. Era tan negra que me asusto. Un negro del color de la medianoche...Quien habla es la madre de Bride, una niña que ha heredado de sus ancestros un color de piel tan negro que sorprende a toda su familia, de piel clara, y provoca el abandono del padre.Pasados los años, la chiquilla se ha transformado en una hermosa empresaria de exito, pero la alargada sombra de la infancia planea sobre su vida adulta y la de su pareja. Un buen dia y sin explicacion alguna, Bride asiste impotente al abandono de Booker, el hombre al que ama. Otra vez el rechazo, otra vez la culpa... y por fin una viaje iniciatico en busca de la redencion, que solo llegara cuando en la negrura asome el verdadero yo de Bride.En la presente edicion, las palabras de Toni Morrison van acompañadas de unas esplendidas ilustraciones de Oscar Astromujoff, quien siempre ha interpretado de la mejor manera el mensaje de la gran autora.Siempre hace falta mas pasion, mas talento..., para contar lo que nos ha ocurrido en las noches oscuras y en los dias soleados.Toni MorrisonReseñas:Uno de los grandes temas que atraviesa la obra de Toni Morrison, como una melodia recurrente, es la influencia que el pasado ejerce sobre el presente. EnLa noche de los niños, con una escritura que gana el ritmo al avanzar el libro, Morrison obra su magia narrativa y hace un cuento tan contundente como feroz.Michiko Kakutani,El Cultural deEl MundoMorrison ha construido una trama sobre la redencion de los errores del pasado. EnLa noche de los niños, su novela mas reciente, Morrison retoma una secuela psicologica de la experiencia de la segregacion y el racismo: el complejo de inferioridad. Su particular forma de articular la cultura oral, el folklore, la tradicion y la influencia de clasicos como Faulkner o Woolf hacen de la obra de Toni Morrison un referente.Ana Llurba,Ahora semanalSiempre adore su franqueza y admire la forma en que ocupo su lugar en el mundo. Crei en ella.Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieElla lideraba y nosotros la seguiamos: nos enseño la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se une a un gran corazon y a una mente feroz.Salman RushdieSu serenidad fue la base para una larga carrera como novelista y persona publica.Harold BloomToni era un alma comprensiva con los escritores mas jovenes como yo. [...] Una vez escribi que a Thomas Hardy le habria encantadoLa isla de los caballeros, pero deberia haber dicho que a Hardy le habria encantado esta escritora.John Irving

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Childthe first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current momentweaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Brides mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that what you do to children matters. And they might never forget. A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison.

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 movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel of mysterious motives reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. The drama of its people - from the four young women and their elderly protector, to conservative businessmen, rednecks, a Civil Rights minister and veterans of three wars - richly evokes clashes that have bedevilled American society: between race and racelessness; patriarchy and matriarchy; religion and magic; freedom and belonging; promiscuity and fidelity. Magnificent in its scope, Paradise is a revelation in the intensity of its portrayal of human complexity and in the sheer force of its narrative.

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works.

Patty, Mickey y Liza Sue viven rodeados de lujos en una gran caja de la que no pueden salir. En la gran caja se esconde el ingenio y la alegría de unos niños cuyo único deseo es saborear la felicidad