The Bluest eye.

English taal

Gepubliceerd 8 november 1990 door Picador.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-33633-8

Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.

In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.

When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...

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t o d d w a r n e r heeft The Bluest Eye door Toni Morrison gerecenseerd

An incredible work

5 sterren

"And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word."

PanaX@bookwyrm.social heeft The Bluest Eye door Toni Morrison gerecenseerd

Review of 'The Bluest Eye' on 'Goodreads'

5 sterren

As Toni lays out, "I focused, therefore, on how something as grotesque as the demonization of an entire race could take root inside the most delicate member of society: a child; the most vulnerable member: a female."

A truly devastating book in almost every regard.