Jazz
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.Joe Trace — in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband — shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. `Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And that is all it takes. ..
Song of Solomon begins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks, Macon goes home to the South, lured ..
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian — a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there's Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous — a young black American of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal betwe..
