Beloved

New York Times Bestseller

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

"You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved , Song of Solomo n, The Bluest Eye , Sula , everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them."—Barack Obama

Product details

Author: Toni Morrison
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2004.
Publication date: 2004
ISBN: 9781400033416
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: October 24, 2012

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