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Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 2004.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: xix, 321 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1400033411
  • 9781400033416
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.5
LOC classification:
  • PS 3563 M882b 2004
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize winner
Summary: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 3563 M882b 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000061183

First Vintage International edition, June 2004
Original edition: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.

Pulitzer Prize winner

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