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Ladataan... Minun kansani, minun rakkaani– tekijä: Toni Morrison
  
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The reader’s taste that I respected the most, was from the person who I respected the most, my late wife Vicky. She absolutely adored Toni Morrison’s books, Beloved even more so. I respect Morrison’s talents greatly, but I never feel as close to her books as those written by many others. Am I feeling a distance from the story because of sex, or race, or setting, possibly, but all the time I was reading it, I was always aware that I was just reading a book, and not experiencing a story? So, I can’t join the enormous world-wide choir of adoration for this book, but I am well aware that I have so much going on in my head lately that my reviews are more distant than normal. I need to find a new normal, if that’s even possible. In the end, I leave you with a strong and heartfelt recommendation from Vicky to enjoy this story that she loved so much. (  ) jphamilton | Apr 13, 2021 |  Beautifully written and heartbreaking story illustrating the trauma of slavery. It blends horror and a ghost story with poetic and literary sensibilities. I'm just sorry I took so long to get around to reading it. (  ) KarenBayly | Apr 10, 2021 | Date approximate ( ) fmc712 | Feb 18, 2021 | This book is an absolute masterpiece and I'm not sure why I haven't read it sooner. It's rich and powerful to read with the story line swirling around the central events in Sethe's past and how she has been unable to escape them. It's not straightforward and all the characters are flawed and sometimes difficult to understand or like, but it shows how the horror of slavery echoes on even once people are free, and into future generations. The Backlisted podcast episode on it is excellent. (  ) AlisonSakai | Feb 16, 2021 | I read it in a day, spellbound. Beloved is about a slice of history without which today's America cannot be fully understood. It's about the horror of slavery wrapped in the gossamer romance of a ghost story and tied up with a ribbon of redemption. The story comes out as the layers are unwrapped - revealing "rememories" and feelings and colors long hidden and denied expression. It's told in the language of the preliterate, and in the case of the ghost daughter Beloved, preverbal - poetic, disjointed, dreamy, confused. I was touched; and the places it touched in me are still raw. (  ) Linda_Louise | Jan 20, 2021 |
 "Beloved" is Toni Morrison's fifth novel, and another triumph. Indeed, Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds. If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, ''Beloved'' will put them to rest. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. Morrison traces the shifting shapes of suffering and mythic accommodations, through the shell of psychosis to the core of a victim's dark violence, with a lyrical insistence and a clear sense of the time when a beleaguered peoples' "only grace...was the grace they could imagine." downloadable .mp3 file Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinKeltainen kirjasto (219) — 6 lisää Sisältyy tähän:Romanzi (tekijä: Toni Morrison) The Bluest Eye; Beloved; Jazz (tekijä: Toni Morrison) Song of Solomon; Beloved (tekijä: Toni Morrison) Mukaelmia:Beloved [1998 film] (tekijä: Jonathan Demme) Lyhennelty täällä:Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present (tekijä: Margaret Busby) Beloved [abridged audio] (tekijä: Toni Morrison) Tutkimuksia:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaan
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before. No library descriptions found. |
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March Group Read: Beloved by Toni Morrison
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