by Toni Morrison · Editions 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264020741
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«Jazz» is Toni Morrison's historical fiction novel, published by Editions 10/18 in paperback (248 pages, in French).
Set in Harlem in the 1920s, the novel centres on Joe and Violette Trace, a married couple whose lives are shaken by Joe's affair with the young Dorcas. Through this story of love, jealousy and violence, Morrison portrays the Great Migration of the African American community northwards and jazz as memory and narrative pulse.
Second novel in Toni Morrison's Beloved trilogy, originally published in 1992. This French edition appeared in 1995.
For readers interested in African American literature, historical fiction and the work of Toni Morrison.
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. 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).
