Beloved

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

Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781400033416

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8652 / Beloved


Review Citation(s):
Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 49

About the Author
TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.