Bibliograph

Beloved, a novel, by Toni Morrison

Type

Label

Beloved, a novel, by Toni Morrison

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Beloved

Oclc number

40455463

Responsibility statement

by Toni Morrison

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before

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