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Beloved

Historical Fiction

Published: Print · 2004 | eBook · 2007

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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. 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

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Beloved
Released · 1998 · Harpo Films · Source ↗
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Toni Morrison: Beloved
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FormatPublisherYearLanguageTerritory
PrintVintage2004-06-08English—
eBookRandom House Digital Inc.2007-07-24English—

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Penguin Random House
Audience Information
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American Film Institute
Film Adaptation
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BBC World Book Club
Toni Morrison: Beloved