Once Upon a Time in America

It is in a very singular prose, at once lyrical, poetic and dreamlike voyage daccents brutal and realistic Toni Morisson simmerge in this America of the late seventeenth century, when it had barely lost its status as terra incognita. Long before the legend of the Wild West, A Don describes this wild America, colonized by Puritans and businessmen of little faith, beginning to enslave the Indians and develop lesclavagisme Africans. It is in this heavy and light atmosphere both where oppression blends with envy freedom as a community where everyone lives member represents a fragment of American history. The narrative is not linear, very tangled, until almost unbearable, to feel the original chaos of the birth of America, between hope and cruelty. A family novel that is not quune denunciation lesclavagisme but gives valuable keys to understanding North American civilization.