کتاب When tuba wept اثر لیلا نیکویی نشر هورین

Toni Morrison was an African American novelist who published her first novel The Bluest Eye in ۱۹۷۰. She wrote several novels and won numerous prizes, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ۱۹۹۳. She originally submitted the manuscript under the name Toni Morrison because it was familiar to her editor. Morrison was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, a town populated by immigrants mainly from Europe. At her integrated school, she met children from a range of cultural backgrounds, some of whom she taught to read. She recalls that Lorain offered little in the way of spectacular scenery or architecture but has speculated that this might have proved "conducive to a fecund imagination" (Paradise ۲۸). It is the language of the African American community of Lorain that she remembers most vividly and that would come to infuse her fiction: a powerful discourse emerged from the combination of "new language and biblical language and sermonic language and standard language" (۳۵) heard in her hometown. Morrison, the second of four children, speaks of her childhood as an enriching and stimulating time. When she is asked to speak about her early years, salient images and feelings resurface persistently; the sounds of her childhood had particular resonance. She recalls listening to music—both of Morrison's maternal grandparents were musicians— being uplifted by the sound of her mother's singing, and following the exchange of stories between family members and friends. -بخشی از کتاب-