3.5
Beloved
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
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“This book wrecked me—in the best way. Beloved isn’t just a novel; it’s an experience. It tells the story of Sethe, an escaped enslaved woman haunted by both her past and a mysterious young woman who suddenly appears in her life. It’s heavy, it’s unsettling, and it’s beautifully written.
Morrison’s storytelling is unlike anything else. The way she plays with time and memory makes you feel the weight of trauma right alongside her characters. One minute, you’re in the present; the next, you’re deep in a memory so vivid it’s like you’re there. And the emotional depth? Unreal. Sethe’s love for her children, the choices she makes, and the guilt she carries—it’s all so raw and real.
This is a book you sit with. It’s not a quick or easy read, but it’s worth every second. It makes you think about history, about survival, about how the past never really leaves us. Some books entertain you, but Beloved changes you. If you haven’t read it yet, you absolutely should.”
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