Gloria Naylor

En una novela resonante que toma como modelo el «Infierno» de Dante, Gloria Naylor revela la verdad sobre el sueño americano: que el precio del éxito bien puede ser un viaje hasta el círculo más bajo

Mattie, Etta Mae, Kiswana, Ciel, Cora Lee, Lorraine e Theresa são as protagonistas deste romance-mosaico formado por sete histórias interconectadas. Todas são negras e residem na Brewster Place, uma

Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review.

With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The ProphetsGloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece Tayari JonesA sweeping, ambitious, gorgeous novel - takes you by the throat and refuses to let go. Mama Day is a stone-cold masterpiece Carmen Maria MachadoBetween Georgia and South Carolina is an island you wont find on any map. Only a single wooden bridge connects it to the world. In Willow Springs people still honour their ancestors, who arrived as slaves back in the time of Sapphira Wade, the true conjure woman who set them all free.It is said that Mama Day has inherited Sapphiras power. She is a healer whose hands have delivered almost every soul on the island - and rumour has it that she can summon lightning storms. When Cocoa, her great-niece, returns to Willow Springs from New York, she brings her husband, George. But can Mama Day save them from the islands darker powers?Mama Day is a powerful story of love, belonging, magic and inheritance.One of my favourite novels of all time. Naylors skill in weaving together culture, heartbreak, joy, magic, terror, laughter, pain, and love - which is to say, life - is extraordinary Robert Jones, JrGloria Naylors exceptional books are deftly acute examinations of the beauty and tenacity of Black lives Irenosen Okojie

The National Book Award-winning noveland contemporary classicthat launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor [A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Miss Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly. The New York Times Book ReviewThis e-book includes a foreword by Tayari Jones. In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protectsa common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Adapted into a 1989 ABC miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, The Women of Brewster Place is a touching and unforgettable read.

En una novela resonante que toma como modelo el «Infierno» de Dante, Gloria Naylor revela la verdad sobre el sueño americano: que el precio del éxito bien puede ser un viaje hasta el círculo más bajo

Un bar fuera del tiempo y en ninguna parteregentado por un veterano de la Segunda GuerraMundial y su esposa sirve como lugar de paso paraquienes se han perdido en la vida. Nadie sabe québusca cuando llega, pero aquellos que cruzan suspuertas encuentran la redencion o el nal de sucamino. Y Bailey, el dueño del bar cuyo verdaderonombre nadie conoce los observa mientras decidensu futuro y narra sus historias.En esta novela que esconde su argumento tras losrelatos vitales de los clientes del bar, Naylor narra,con la estructura de un disco de jazz y la crudezade quien ya lo ha visto todo, problematicas declase, genero, raza y sexualidad. Sus paginas estanpobladas de parias cuyo unico pecado ha sidoexistir de la manera equivocada y cuyo unicoconsuelo es el oido de un huraño mesonero, lapiedad de un viejo judio y las habitaciones de lacasa de una madame que solo acepta pagos enores

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIEGloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language. Her novels will shine a light for readers and writers for generations to come TAYARI JONESA virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humourNew York Times Book ReviewIn postwar Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, theres a little place that draws people from all over - not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee. An in-between place thats only there when you need it, Baileys Cafe is a crossroads where patrons stay for a while before making a choice: Move on or check out?Theres Sadie, the ladylike alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby boarding house, taking payment only in white roses; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Naylors breath-taking novel is an enthralling fusion of lives whose courage, mystery and humour suggest nothing less than a blues tapestry of America.Gloria Naylor was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. She holds a hallowed place in the canon, and also in hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits ROBERT JONES, Jr., author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets