Beloved
Published on 4. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-09-927393-6 (ISBN)
Description
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Reviews / Votes
'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' 'I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her' '[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind' 'No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart' 'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' 'Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen' 'Morrison's legacy in commemorating slavery's survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come' 'Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together' 'I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all' 'Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry'More details
Edition
Media tie-in
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Edition type
Media tie-in
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
238 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-927393-6 (9780099273936)
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Person
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.