num_pages: 352
description: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this 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 Beloved.
language: English
title: Beloved
titlecomplete: Beloved
characters: Halle, Paul D, Schoolteacher, Denver, Sixo, Baby Suggs, Stamp Paid, Beloved, Sethe
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, African American, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Classics, School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 417680
places: The United States of America, Ohio, Kentucky
series: Beloved Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: New Amer Library