Amada

Beloved Trilogy #1

by Toni Morrison

Livro mais conhecido da escritora americana Toni Morrison, prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1993, Amada ganhou o Pulitzer de 1988 e em 2006 foi eleito pelo New York Times a obra de ficção mais importante dos últimos 25 anos nos Estados Unidos. Em 1998 recebeu uma adaptação cinematográfica - A bem-amada -, com Oprah Winfrey no papel principal. A história se passa nos anos posteriores ao fim da Guerra Civil, quando a escravidão havia sido abolida nos Estados Unidos. Sethe é uma ex-escrava que, após fugir com os filhos da fazenda em que era mantida cativa, foi refugiar-se na casa da sogra em Cincinatti. No caminho, ela dá à luz um bebê, a menina Denver, que vai acompanhá-la ao longo da história. Amada tem uma estrutura sinuosa, não-linear: viaja do presente ao passado, alterna pontos de vista, sonda cada uma das facetas que compõem esta história sombria e complexa. Considerado um clássico contemporâneo, faz um retrato a um tempo lírico e cruel da condição do negro no fim do século XIX nos Estados Unidos. "A versatilidade e a abrangência técnica e emocional de Toni Morrison não têm limites. Não há como duvidar de sua estatura como uma das personalidades mais proeminentes da literatura americana de todos os tempos. Amada é um livro arrepiante." - Margaret Atwood, The New York Times

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 1987

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.