Four generations of black life in America. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins,...

"One of the most celebrated and revered writers in the history of American literature gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass, that are Toni Morrison's hallmarks. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a...

The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who 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.

Written by the author of "Beloved", this novel reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and, finally, his home.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces - a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial....

Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.

Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la decada de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison. Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en an~os, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podran vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los an~os '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados....

A version of Aesop's Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time differently preparing for winter in a tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival.

TONI MORRISON INÉDITA El único y deslumbrante relato de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, «un gigante de su época y dela nuestra» (Margaret Atwood), con un epílogo deZadie Smith. «Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguíamos: nos enseñó la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se unen un gran corazón y una mente feroz». Salman Rushdie Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca...