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| Verlag | Vintage |
| Auflage | 2009 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 11,1 x 18 x 1,5 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 130 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099502542 |
| EAN | 9780099502548 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09950254EA |
1680 Amerika. Die verstörende Geschichte der Sklaverei und einer Mutter und ihrer Tochter, gefangen in einer brutalen Welt, in der ein Akt der Gnade mitunter ungeahnte Konsequenzen hat.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Klappentext:
'A beautiful and important book' The Times
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably.
With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck.
Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.
'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones, New York Times
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WI NNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Rezension:
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
