The Bluest Eye

Nobel prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison`s debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. `Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures` Washington Post Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction