Beloved by Toni Morrison
INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio.'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours.. Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all'
‘I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her’
‘[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind’
‘No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart’
‘Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known’
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099540977 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099540975 |
| Title | Beloved |
| Author | Toni Morrison |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 (United States) |
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