Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller 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.

"You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else -- they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
ISBN: 9781400033416
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 49

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