Book :: Beloved
| By: | Toni Morrison |
| Pages: | 324 |
| Published: | 1987 |
| Genre(s): | Historical Fiction |
| African American | |
| Magical Realism | |
| Award(s): | Nobel Prize in Literature (1993) |
| Pulitzer Prize (1988) | |
| Rating: | (14) |
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so...
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justinwolfe82
It was a bit challenging for me to get into this book. I feel like it's book you need to truly study to truly understand. I just do not think it would be in my top 10.
May 26th, 2017
Caro60
This book went some way to helping me to understand what it meant to be a slave and the level of physical and psychological degradation involved. That a child could be so beloved that you would prefer to see it dead than have it live the life of slavery which you have led is a truly frightening outcome. And for that child to come back to be reborn to you and to haunt you with that decision is almost unimaginable. One of the most chillingly powerful novels I have read in a long time.
Nov 24th, 2014
red13x
I really enjoyed this book. I occasionally found the haunting side of the story a bit harder to take in as the rest was so vividly real and plausible. When I did allow myself to be taken in by all aspects of the story I found it hard to put down! I would strongly recommend this book to anyone.
Jan 12th, 2014
Beloved appears on these lists...
12th on The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review
45th on The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert
7th on Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe
50th on 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph
36th on Books of the Century by Waterstone
20th on Top 100 Books by Newsweek
