PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This "powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
"A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. 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.
"Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times
"A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
"A triumph." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
"Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." -- The New York Times
"A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." -- Newsweek
"Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." -- People
"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." -- New York Review of Books
"A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." -- The Washington Post
"There is something great in Beloved a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." -- The New Yorker
TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.