Beloved

By Toni Morrison (Author)
Format: Paperback / softback 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9780099511656
Published: 6 Dec 2007
Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Weight: 248g
Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 22 (mm)

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.

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.

*One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World*