Sula

A Novel

De: Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward - introduction

Narrado por: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. • With a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.

“Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive.” —The New York Times

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.

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“Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter.” —The New York Times

“Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy.” —Newsweek

“In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison’s originality and power emerge.” —The Nation

“Enchanting. . . . Powerful.” —Chicago Daily News

“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” —The New York Review of Books

“Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time. . . . [Morrison] is a major talent.” —Elliot Anderson, Chicago Tribune

“As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist . . . written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache.” —Playboy

“In the first ranks of our living novelists.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Toni Morrison’s gifts are rare: the re-creation of the black experience in America with both artistry and authenticity.” —Library Journal

“Should be read and passed around by book-lovers everywhere.” —Los Angeles Free Press

heavy

its deep heavy book that was difficult to finish at times. toni morrison triggers fears about life and change

So Many Cinematic Sentences

There are lines in here that are pure Black poetry. The world building as detailed and majestic in its lore as the lands of Jean Toomer’s “Cane.” The story between two black women friends at the center of the piece is also rare and fully realized. Just flawless work here.

I LOVE Toni Morrison books

I have a great infatuation with Toni Morrison novels. I love her story-telling ability mixed with poetic depictions of intricate scenery and characters. I did not like her volume with reading the novel. At times, I had to turn my volume to the max to be able to hear what she was saying. I would recommend the audio producers to improve this for audiobook listeners. But there is definitely a nostalgia with her tone of voice and style of reading her novels that cannot be replicated by anyone other than the author.

Excellent narration by the author

Great companion to "The Bluest Eye." Toni Morrison has a beautiful voice and, of course reads her own work with such meaning.

A gift

Wow. Having Toni Morrison reading her own words to me felt like a privilege I should’ve had to earn. A revelatory experience. Can’t wait to delve into all of her audiobooks.