THE CLASSIC NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING TONI MORRISON
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty,Belovedis Toni Morrisons enduring masterpiece.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye, Beloved(made into a major film),ParadiseandLove.She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
'Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work' New York Times>
