America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni
Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this
twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story
about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured
by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War
who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself
back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home
may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling
apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister
and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that
he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from
childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of
self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never
possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his
manhood—and his home.
關於作者:
Toni Morrison is the author of ten novels, from The Bluest
Eye 1970 to A Mercy 2008. She has received the
National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993
she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in New
York.