Toni Morrison (Author)
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula,
Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics
Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian
honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August
2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
Zadie Smith (Introducer)
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph
Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella,
The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My
Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of
short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden,
adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other
People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still
lives.
Recitatif is the only short story written by the powerhouse
novelist . . . Morrison's sharp-eyed treatment of race, racism, and
racial hierarchies remains relevant, digging deep into the marrow
of society's maladies.
*Literary Hub*
This smart slippery tale... [is] highly relevant to our times...
[Recitatif] serves as a challenge to contemporary novels that
prefer to take refuge in racial orthodoxy than unsettle it, as
Morrison so brilliantly does here
*Daily Mail*
A compelling exploration of race and relationships
*i*
So thought-provoking you'll want everyone you know to read it
*Daily Mail, *Summer Reads of 2022**
Genius
*Guardian*
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