Jazz

a novel

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229 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2004 by Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-7621-5
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Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South. The novel forms the second part of Morrison's Dantesque trilogy on African-American history, beginning with Beloved (1987) and ending with Paradise (1997).

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this is beautifully written; I read the german translation and I imagine the original is even better. it talks mostly about love, in a heteroromantic way, but also love for a mother, life and music. I'll definitely read more by toni morrison.

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Subjects

  • African Americans -- Fiction
  • Crimes of passion -- Fiction
  • Middle-aged persons -- Fiction
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction