num_pages: 275
description: Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl
language: English
title: Beloved
titlecomplete: Beloved
characters: Paul D, Denver, Sixo, Beloved, Baby Suggs, Halle, Schoolteacher, Sethe, Stamp Paid
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, African American, Classics, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 417472
places: Kentucky, The United States of America, Ohio
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: Plume