“Paradise” de Toni Morrison. Ilustración para Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.

A new book by Toni Morrison published (Premio Nobel Literature 1993) the editorial Debolsillo. This time it is “Paradise”, written by the American author's work 1998. Jaime Enrique Mestre-illustrates the cover of this new work of Contemporary collection, DeBolsillo.

 

Paraiso,,en,A blessing,,es. Toni Morrison

 

"They shoot the white girl first against. With others can take the time they want ".

So begins Paradise, with this horrible scene of violence. The town of Ruby, Oklahoma, It was founded in the forties by freed slaves and descendants of survivors of a hostile exodus. This patriarchal community is built on the foundations of justice, mutual respect and love of neighbor. But in the seventies these values ​​have been replaced by fear. The earthly paradise that had been built was crumbling. The scapegoat is only twenty kilometers away, In the convent, abandoned mansion occupied by four desperate women, Also daughters of exiles. Pain falls on them, terror and murderous rage of nine men citizens of Ruby.

Reviews:
"The most overtly feminist novel Morrison."
The New York Times

"Morrison has managed to combine poetry, emotion and large symbolic level. "
The New York Times Book Review

"A success… The individual stories of both women and citizens [Ruby] They show the best of Morrison. "
Publishers Weekly

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