Beloved

Plume Contemporary Fiction

Third Person

Fiction

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In 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 secretthese are the central concerns of Toni Morrisons Pulitzer Prizewinning Beloved. Morrison a Nobel laureate has written many fine novels including Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye and Paradisebut 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 pr

New Amer Library (Mm)

9787116200593

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