Beloved (1987)

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved is a mesmerizing and dazzlingly creative picture of a woman plagued by her past. Sethe was born a slave and fled to Ohio, but she is still not free eighteen years later. She has survived the unfathomable and has not gone insane, but she is continually haunted by thoughts of Sweet Home, the lovely property where so many heinous things occurred. Meanwhile, Sethe's home has long been haunted by the furious, destructive spirit of her kid, who died without a name and whose tombstone has just the word "Beloved".

She tries hard to keep the past at bay, yet it continues to be heard and felt in her memories and in the lives of those around her. Sethe's tragic secret spills into the present when a mysterious adolescent girl comes calling herself Beloved. Morrison's memorable novel is one of the great and lasting masterpieces of American literature, combining the visionary force of legend with the unshakable reality of history.

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