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Beloved: A Novel

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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, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage

Country

United Kingdom

Date

5 December 1997

Pages

352

ISBN

9780099760115

Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece.

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage

Country

United Kingdom

Date

5 December 1997

Pages

352

ISBN

9780099760115

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was a bestselling and prize winning author, whose work explored black identity in America, and in particular the experiences of black women. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Beloved, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

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