Beloved

Toni Morrison's novel Beloved was published in 1987. It depicts the story of a family of previously enslaved people whose Cincinnati house is haunted by an evil spirit after the American Civil War. Beloved is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman from Kentucky who escaped and went to the free state of Ohio in 1856. She was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; when U.S. marshals burst into the cabin where Garner and her husband had barricaded themselves, she was attempting to kill her children and had already killed her two-year-old daughter, in order to keep them from being returned to slavery.

The overwhelming emotional weight and deep-seated sense of dread that comes with each page of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winner is impossible to bear. Beloved is, at its core, a traditional ghost story about a former slave who is plagued by otherworldly torments linked to a long-buried and horrible secret. In a broader sense, it examines guilt, the extent to which desperation may drive an individual, and the psychological pain of slavery. Beloved is a novel with a unique and deadly force.

Detailed information:

Author: Toni Morrison
Language: English
Genre: Horror

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