by Toni Morrison
Vintage
6/8/2004, paperback
SKU: 9781400033416
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.
Reviews:
"A masterwork....Wonderful....I can't imagine American literature without it." -- John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
"Compelling....Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." -- The Village Voice
"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." -- New York Review of Books
"A work of genuine force....Beautifully written." -- The Washington Post
About the Author:
is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.