Author: Toni Morrison
Translator: Aeju Kim
Publisher: Deulnyeok
230 pages.
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About This Book
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of
an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a
prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder
that the novel becomes poetry."
Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty.
At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity
first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor,
raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and
dreaming of princes.
Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments,
yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the
hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around
the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at
failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the
invisible line that cannot be overstepped.
Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to
the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her
three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the
hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers,
asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it.
Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate.
Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them.
Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home
(the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child
drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she
first returned...
In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a
bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which
that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty
years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they
feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
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