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Solomons Lied: Roman | Mit einem Nachwort von Mithu Sanyal
Aufgewachsen ist Milkman Dead im Schatten seines statusbesessenen Vaters. Als junger Mann ist er im Kielwasser seines Freundes gelandet, der nur auf eins aus Rache. Jetzt bekommt er die Chance, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. Immer schon hat er sich danach gesehnt, fliegen zu können. Also verlässt er seine Heimatstadt im Rust Belt in Richtung Süden. Angezogen von einem mythischen Familienschatz, wird seine Odyssee eine Reise zu seinen Wurzeln, auf der ihn die Seherin Pilate und ihre verliebte Enkelin Hagar begleiten. Auf dem Weg verliert er mehr, als er sich je hätte vorstellen können, und findet etwas, das unendlich viel mehr wert ist als seine Vergangenheit, seine Herkunft, sein wahres Ich.
«Solomons Lied handelt von einem Mann, der zu fliegen lernt, und von allem, was das bedeutet. Aber es geht auch darum, wie wir alle entdecken, wer und was wir sind. Und wie wichtig und wirklich aufregend diese Reise ist.» Toni Morrison
«Solomons Lied handelt von einem Mann, der zu fliegen lernt, und von allem, was das bedeutet. Aber es geht auch darum, wie wir alle entdecken, wer und was wir sind. Und wie wichtig und wirklich aufregend diese Reise ist.» Toni Morrison
480 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2026
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Toni Morrison
182 books25.3k followersChloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience.
The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience.
The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.
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June 16, 2026
Milkman´s Weg zu sich selbst, der Liebe zu seiner Familie, die Suche nach seinen Verwandten. mitreißend, emotional zu lesen, ein offenes Ende. Das war mein viertes und bestes Buch von Toni Morrison.
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