Ojos azules / The Bluest Eye

Cover of Ojos azules / The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Year: 2022
Language: es
Edition: 003
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9788497932660
Dimensions:
Height: 7.48 Inches
Length: 4.96 Inches
Weight: 0.43431065614 Pounds
Width: 0.6 Inches
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Ojos azules / The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a poignant exploration of beauty standards and the impact of societal expectations on a young girl. Published by National Geographic Books on December 20, 2022, this edition is presented in Spanish and spans 272 pages. The narrative centers on Pecola, an 11-year-old Black girl who grapples with feelings of inadequacy and yearns for blue eyes, believing that this change would transform her life and garner the admiration she craves.

Readers will find a profound examination of themes such as imposed beauty, the female voice, and the challenges of childhood. Through Pecola’s experiences and her interactions with her family and community, the story delves into the harsh realities of race and identity. Morrison’s writing captures the complexities of her characters’ lives, revealing the emotional weight of their struggles and desires. This edition invites readers to reflect on the societal pressures that shape perceptions of beauty and self-worth.


Official synopsis Publisher

Toni Morrison, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993, parte de la realidad de una chiquilla desgraciada para tratar temas como el concepto de belleza impuesto, la voz femenina o la infancia truncada, y lo consigue con una historia dura y deliciosa al mismo tiempo.
 
Pecola es una niña pequeña que vive con sus padres y tiene una prima que se llama Claudia. Le gustan las muñecas y las caléndulas, que no le gustan a nadie excepto a ella. Pecola es negra y cree que es fea porque no se parece a Shirley Temple. Y tiene un truco para desaparecer cuando sus padres se pelean o su padre la molesta por las noches: piensa que tiene unos preciosos ojos azules, que todo el mundo admira su belleza y que las otras niñas la envidian. Pero ese sueño nunca se convertirá en realidad y Pecola seguirá atrapada en la triste vida que le ha tocado en suerte.
 
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A national bestseller, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
 
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

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Language: es. Pages: 272. Edition: 003.

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