宣告一位文壇巨匠誕生的經典作品
諾貝爾文學獎得主童妮 摩里森首部小說
《最藍的眼睛》是諾貝爾文學獎得主童妮.摩里森的第一部小說,故事以摩里森的家鄉俄亥俄州樂仁鎮為背景,敘述十一?的黑人女孩琵可拉祈求自己的眼睛能夠變藍,以便看起來像金髮碧眼的孩子那樣漂亮,那樣討人喜愛。琵可拉以為這樣的改變能使其人生從此不同:父親不再酗酒;母親不再蔑視家人;哥哥不再離家出走;其他人不再欺侮她、忽略她。然而,發生在她身上的一件駭人事件,讓全鎮的金盞花不見蹤影,也使她的人生走向悲劇性毀滅。
書裡不僅深刻描繪出有所渴盼的孩童心中所存在的懼怕與孤獨,更藉由一個以他人眼光來判定自我價值的極端例子,披露種族主義對黑人族群的殘害,批判盲目追求主流價值觀將導致自我迷失,帶給讀者強烈的警惕與震撼。本書在美國自1970年出版後持續引發探討,並已堂堂入列經典小說之林。
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME - 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).