Paradise

諾貝爾文學獎得獎作家Toni Morrison作品　　

　　‘TONI MORRISON’S LATEST LITERARY TRIUMPH…

　　PARADISE IS STRUCTURED AROUND EIGHT CHAPTERS, EACH BEARING A WOMAN’S NAME, EACH ADDING A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW TO THE NARRATIVE. IT’S SET IN RUBY, A FICTITIOUS BLACK TOWN FOUNDED BY PROUD, RACIALLY PURE MEN WHO EMERGED FOR, THE FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY ONLY TO FIND THERE WAS YET ANOTHER HIERARCHY – THIS TIME BASED ON FRADATIONS OF SKIN COLOUR – TO KEPP THEM DOWN. YET THE MYTH OF RUBY’S OWN RACIAL GENEALOGY, ITS PIETY AND SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FRAGILE, AND THE WOMEN WHO SKIRT THE TOWN’S BOUNDARIES, PREFERRING TO TAKE REFUGE IN THEIR WON COMPANY THERATEN TO BLOW IT APART’

　　FIONA MORROW, Time Out

　　‘IN CHELLENGING COMPLACENCIES AND OPENING UP NEW SPACES IN AMERICAN NARRATIVE FICTION, [MORRISON] HAS NO PEER’MAYA JAGGI, Independent

　　‘PARADISE IS THE SRANGEST AND MOST ORIGINAL BOOK THAT MORRISON HAS WRITTEN…IT SYMBOLICALLY EXPLODES ONE OF THE MYTHS OF RACE. AND IT IS MORRISON AT HER NOVELISTIC BEST’

　　LOUIS , Elle