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Beloved
  • Published: 5 December 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099760115
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Beloved

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Paperback
1 Dec 2010
Paperback
5 Dec 1997
Hardback
20 Dec 2023
EBook
4 Sept 2014
Audiobook
16 May 2006
Paperback
4 Feb 2008
Paperback
1 Apr 1999
Hardback
1 Dec 2006
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Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.

'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece.

'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, New York Times

'The literary titan we must never stop learning from' Metro

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
  • Published: 5 December 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099760115
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Toni Morrison

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.

portrait photo of Toni Morrison

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Praise for Beloved

A triumph

Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review

A magnificent achievement... An American masterpiece

A. S. Byatt, Guardian

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

Toni Morrison has created a frightening, beautiful and intensely exciting novel about America and its past. I am not able to think of a better one

London 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

New Yorker