Sinisimmät silmät
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789513103613 (9513103617)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Tammi
Pages no: 208
Edition language: Finnish
I read the Vintage edition that included an afterword where Morrison discusses the problems she sees in her first novel, and while I enjoyed Beloved and Song of Solomon more, this book in spite of Morrison's complaints is an amazing debut. We can see in the text the seeds of the author's immense t...
Wow. Just wow. This was...haunting is the best I can come up with.
...and then the last two pages happened. At first I was terribly disappointed—because obviously this unnecessary explanation of the brilliance before had been tacked on specially for thick white people like me—but no. Those last paragraphs were there to deliver the final punch in the last five sente...
Please note that this book deals with rape and incest. This book has left me thinking over certain themes for days. I think the best thing I can say about any book is that I can't stop thinking about it. "The Bluest Eye" was so hard to read in parts that I honestly was surprised when I got to the en...
I just can't get behind a story told so haphazardly. There is no linear timeline or plot. The whole thing is just a character study done in countless vignettes from different people's points of view. It was physically painful for me to read as it resulted in a bunch of confusion, dissociation, and h...
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