The Bluest Eye

Written by Toni Morrison and Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by Toni Morrison and Karen Murray

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 subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.

“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Release date: Jul 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9780307941121

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) nació en Lorain (Ohio). Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. Fue autora de las novelas Ojos azules (1970), Sula (1973), La canción de Salomón (1977, National Book Critics Circle Award en 1978), La isla de los caballeros (1981), Beloved (Lumen, 2021, Premio Pulitzer), Jazz (1992), Paraíso (1997), Amor (2003), Una bendición (Lumen, 2009), Volver (Lumen, 2012) y La noche de los niños (Lumen, 2016), de ensayos como El origen de los otros (Lumen, 2018) y La fuente de la autoestima (Lumen, 2020), y de un único relato que, con epílogo de Zadie Smith, Lumen publica ahora en el libro Las dos amigas (un recitativo). En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.

Reviews for The Bluest Eye

[cherrishllc · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I started the bluest eye because of a post I saw on Instagram about the author. I found all of her books and said I will choose them based off year written. I was intrigued with this one, but the book does jump to so many plots and situations in a way. Overall a pretty good book.

[Silviarudias · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A powerful writer in a short but intense novel. Notable for creating atmospheres. It has the additional feature that in different chapters, the perspective of the narrator changes. A pleasure. (Translated from Spanish)

[Guillermo VII · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Tremendous storyteller. Toni Morrison does not disappoint. Communicates a lot with very few words. A very powerful story of personal search that reflects that of the African American community in the U.S. Very good book. (Translated from Spanish)

[SophieLiber · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A very harsh novel that tells how both psychological and physical abuse towards minors generates trauma in their development as individuals and in their loved ones, and how it destroys their future relationships. Through the story of the protagonist, other characters with different and tough stories will be known, who help her in some way. (Translated from Spanish)