TONI MORRISON IN DITA

El nico y deslumbrante relato de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, «un gigante de su poca y de la nuestra (Margaret Atwood), con un ep logo de Zadie Smith.

«Ella lideraba y nosotros la segu amos: nos ense la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se unen un gran coraz n y una mente feroz . -Salman Rushdie

Dos ni as son obligadas a compartir habitaci n en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en com n m s de lo que esperaban. «La sal y la pimienta , como las empiezan a llamar los dem s, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos lugares: un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestaci n, siempre en lados opuestos de los conflictos sociales.

En el nico relato que escribi , la gran Morrison imagina el mapa de las identidades raciales de forma alternativa y sit a al lector en el centro de uno de sus experimentos literarios m s complejos. Esta edici n incluye, adem s, un ep logo en el que Zadie Smith ahonda en la maestr a de este sofisticado artefacto literario.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner--for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith

"A puzzle of a story, then--a game.... When Morrison] called Recitatif an 'experiment' she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." --Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth

In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.

Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white, and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage?

A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times

Las DOS Amigas (Un Recitativo) (Inédito) / Recitatif - heftet, Spansk, 2023