– Sula is a book about a little girl who grows up in the same house as her mother and grandmpther.The place is Ohio, and the time is early 1900.
Nel becomes Sulas best friend, and during a childplay by the river, they accidently push a little boy into the river. This experience will haunt them all through their grown up lives.
The book gives a great innsight in what the everyday lifes in Ohio must have been like. The book is sometimes funny, and sometimes sad, but alltogether entertaining. We meet a lot of different people! The author must have a huge knowledge of society and peoplesmind, to write as livly as this. Great observations.
But the book doas not reach the top in Toni Morrisons list of books. It's like there's something missing...
Sula
«Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter»
New York Times
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.
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'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.
Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear – the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
‘What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age’ Alice Walker, Guardian
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9780099760016
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter»
New York Times
«Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling writers at work today»
The Times
«Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her»
Guardian
«In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge»
The Nation
«Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [Morrison] is a major talent»
Chicago Tribune