Beloved (novel) - Wikipedia Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit Sethe, a formerly enslaved mother of four, grapples with her traumatic past
Beloved | Summary, Characters, Facts | Britannica Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873
Beloved by Toni Morrison | Goodreads 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 by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International): Toni . . . - Amazon Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present--and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this spellbinding novel But it also moves beyond its particulars, combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history
Beloved (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Penguin Random House 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 “A masterwork… Wonderful… I can’t imagine American literature without it ” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times