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Beloved : a Novel by Toni Morrison; [with a new foreword by the author] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewIn the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved. A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including Beloved is arguably her best. To modern readers, antebellum slavery is a subject so familiar that it is almost impossible to render its horrors in a way that seems neither clichéd nor melodramatic. Rapes, beatings, murders, and mutilations are recounted here, but they belong to characters so precisely drawn that the tragedy remains individual, terrifying to us because it is terrifying to the sufferer. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the bit, for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate

Who reads Beloved : a Novel?

Author

Toni Morrison; [with a new foreword by the author]

Publisher

Vintage International

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439559796

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (238,038 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14