In the forties, Bill Cosey owned a hotel for wealthy blacks on the East Coast of the United States
; everything the community had to artists, doctors, businessmen and women of the world had to navigate. In 1971, at his death, everything changes ...
Already on the decline, the old idyllic place turns into a battlefield where opposing women obsessed by the figure of Bill: May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida and even L can not forget the man who embodied their desire for a father, husband, lover, protector, friend. Both the vacuum and the center of their history, powerful, charismatic, shadowy, monstrous, he himself was driven by dark forces troubled past and an unforgettable woman named Celestial.
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Like many, I discovered Toni Morrison (Nobel Prize in 1993) through Beloved A very good book that many have probably just started one day, the fault of one frame and the characters sometimes a bit "complicated."
Bill Cosey is a man apart. Black, he owns one of the biggest hotels in the city. At his death he leaves a draft will, that will eventually plunge those who loved, hated or served in a war powers and memories. Through the story of his granddaughter, his cook and his wife tearing at his death, we find throughout the book which was really Bill Cosey and why his death has created so many passions.
Love (appreciate originality in the selection of titles by the author) is also the diary of a community (African Americans) in search of identity in an era and a country where whites run Blacks and running. Before the riots and the civil rights riots, Bill Cosey was ahead of its time, having managed to find the perfect balance between the ancestral father figure that everyone respects and astute businessman who commands admiration by its financial success. "Man" is both a husband, father, protector and a second (much calls him "Dad"). It is "good" and "fair", and since he "understands" and "subvient" we come to forgive the unforgivable. Even his death is still disputed is its "attention", being those of a silent war, still living who knew him.
Toni Morrison's style is of uncommon accuracy, especially in its ability to transcribe our emotions with the smell of a dish or the tension of an argument. She has this ability to discover more cleverly his characters, few, but we do not discover the true history or the real intentions slowly over narrative. It seems that the author prepares us very gently, carefully to better reveal the intrigues of his story, just like a big thriller in under an atmosphere "great fresco" type Hauts de Hurleven t (no offense, I enjoyed this book.)
To read or not?
Yes. A great book carried by a living writing and chopped, a true success story that deserves to be immersed in it. Without doubt my discovery of the young years 2011, no doubt you reread in the coming months a review of Toni Morrison ...
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