Beloved
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 8, 2004
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in African American history and the legacy of slavery
- Themes
- slavery, memory, haunting
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.
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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
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in African American history and the legacy of slavery
- Book clubs focusing on Pulitzer Prize-winning literary fiction
Where it sits
| Black Historical Fiction | 77% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 56% |
| Black Fiction | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Coming-of-Age
- Black Fiction
- Authors
- Toni Morrison
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 8, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- slavery · memory · haunting
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction