Beloved

Beloved Trilogy #1

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a haunting and inventive portrait of a woman haunted by her past.
Sethe was born a slave and fled to Ohio, but eighteen years later she was still not free. She endured unimaginable things and did not go mad, but she was still imprisoned by the memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many horrible things happened. Meanwhile, Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry and destructive ghost of her child, who died without a name and whose headstone is inscribed with a single word: Beloved.
Sethe tries to push away the past, but it is constantly heard and felt in her memories and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.
Combining the fictional power of myth with the undeniable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the greatest and most enduring works of American literature.