O olho mais azul

by Toni Morrison, Rosane Correa (Narrator), Manoel Paulo Ferreira

Uma tentativa de dramatizar a opressão que o preconceito racial pode causar na mais vulnerável das uma menina negra. Considerado um dos livros mais impactantes de Toni Morrison, o primeiro romance da autora conta a história de Pecola Breedlove, uma menina negra que sonha com uma beleza diferente da sua. Negligenciada pelos adultos e maltratada por outras crianças por conta da pele muito escura e do cabelo muito crespo, ela deseja mais do que tudo ter olhos azuis como os das mulheres brancas — e a paz que isso lhe traria. Mas, quando a vida de Pecola começa a desmoronar, ela precisa aprender a encarar seu corpo de outra forma.
Poderosa reflexão sobre raça, classe social e gênero, O olho mais azul é um livro atemporal e necessário.

"É sempre preciso ler e reler os livros de Toni Morrison. Todos eles são transcendentais. Você vai me agradecer depois da leitura." — Barack Obama

"Impossível terminar de ler este livro sem questionar os padrões de beleza e os riscos que a sociedade impõe às jovens." — The Guardian

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Published October 24, 2026

About the author

Chloe 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.