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Beloved
By Toni MorrisonPublisher Description
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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“Heartbreaking study of generational trauma, grief, and slavery in American’s history. Toni Morrison’s writing conjured visions in my mind that left me sobbing.”Multi-layered charactersOriginal writingUnpredictableDark settingDarkHeartbreakingThought-provokingRacismSexual assaultViolence
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Multi-layered charactersBeautifully writtenAddictiveTwistyImmersive settingMagical settingDarkSexual assaultViolenceUnsatisfying ending
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“This is one of those books that leaves an impression on your heart and mind. I won’t lie and say I “understood” it. Definitely a book I’ll read again, once I’ve had time to turn it over in my mind. I appreciated that no character was the all good or all evil (besides faceless and unnamed people who have brief interactions with the central characters). There is a rich complexity to this novel, down to each action described. There is no one reason behind anything, no one experience that defines the core of who these characters are. A fairly central idea that comes up throughout the book is community — the way Morrison explores the impact of community on individual characters feels true to life. I smiled when I noticed parallels between Black American culture, past and present, especially through language. There is a touch of magical realism, which reminded me a bit of the way the supernatural is so matter-of-fact within African folklore. The nature imagery being tied into how hair and skin is described; a black man’s skin being described as “peachstone”, a black woman’s hair described as roots or branches. People, intrinsically connected the earth, not separate from it.”Characters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully writtenOriginal writingUnpredictableHeartbreakingThought-provokingAbuseRacismViolence
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