num_pages: 316
description: Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not truly free. She has endured the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many appalling things happened. Meanwhile, Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. When a mysterious teenaged girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
language: English
title: Beloved
titlecomplete: Beloved
characters: Stamp Paid, Baby Suggs, Sethe, Paul D, Schoolteacher, Denver, Halle, Sixo, Beloved
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 417658
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: Everyman's Library