Beloved

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Beloved is Toni Morrison's masterpiece and one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, 'Beloved'. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece and best-known work. 'Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work' New York Times 'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' Margaret Atwood 'An American masterpiece' A. S. Byatt WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all

I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her
[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind
No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart
Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known
Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen
Morrisons legacy in commemorating slaverys survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come'
Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together
I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all
Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry
Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century
[Toni Morrisons] irreverence was godly * Guardian *
A beautiful book and it's beautifully written -- Kit de Waal * Good Housekeeping UK *
My favourite book of all time -- Sareeta Domingo * Good Housekeeping *
A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian *
A triumph -- Margaret Atwood * New York Times Book Review *
She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever * Sunday Times *
Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature * New York Review of Books *
A work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written * Washington Post *
There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you * The New Yorker *

Author Bio

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.