The Bluest Eye - Žiurkikės

215 psl.

English kalba

Publikuota 2005 m. rugsėjo 6 d., Plume.

ISBN:: 978-0-452-28706-8
OCLC numeris:: 62222005

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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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PanaX@bookwyrm.social apžvelgė autoriaus Toni Morrison knygą The Bluest Eye

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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.