Description

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.

Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.

‘Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work’ New York Times

‘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’ Margaret Atwood

‘An American masterpiece’ A. S. Byatt

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

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

Publisher Review

"[Beloved] has left the realm of fiction and become a force of nature" * Guardian * "A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece" -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian * "A triumph" -- Margaret Atwood * New York Times Book Review * "She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever" * Sunday Times * "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature" * New York Review of Books * "A work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written" * Washington Post * "There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you" * The New Yorker * "Superb. . .A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . .Exquisitely told" * Cosmopolitan * "This is a wonderful novel about slavery, freedom, parental loss and revenants" * The Week, Thomas Keneally *