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Beloved - Toni Morrison & Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Beloved

By Toni Morrison & Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  • Release Date: 1987-08-12
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
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From 887 Ratings
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Description

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

Reviews

  • Enchanting

    5
    By Holllllllaaa
    Hauntingly beautiful, Toni Morrison is a master of spoken and written language. Do your minds justice and read this masterpiece

  • The Weight of Loss?

    3
    By Kbthemayor
    I struggled with this read—a lot, unfortunately. And, after reviewing others post, my struggle is simply my own. In the end, this is—to me—a story about one’s personal relationship with loss, grief and shame (in an horrible time). It is also a story about how, even intermittently, others see it/respond to it while it is being experience by one. What I got (I think), is this relationship, loss, grief and shame, are equally personal, traumatic and, in its memory, consuming. Perhaps feeding/sustaining on a sustenance (or lack thereof) of a good and kind act. Depleting…dilapidating. It was just hard to read it (not to discredit the author). I struggled, I persisted…I struggled.

  • A piece of history no one wants to know.

    5
    By Mickj 02
    An amazing book. Just as it says in the end, it’s not a story to be passed on, or remembered. The ultimate love sacrifice in an insane period of the United States.

  • Beloved

    5
    By Red Brooklyn Tree
    Heartbreakingly beautiful love letter to the human soul

  • Love!

    5
    By Craion89
    Love this book. It is such a unique and dark tale of the guilt mothers hold based on the choices they’ve made when raising their child. Although this is extreme, most mothers can relate to the guilt in their own lives.

  • Beautiful and Haunting

    5
    By Barbiecutie
    Read in a few days. Some parts are difficult, but the storyline is a testament of the power of women when they come together.

  • Mesmerizing, painfully so.

    5
    By frostitude
    This is a work of genuine beauty. It’s wrapped in a story of wholly American history that is so painful to finish but worth all that it inflicts on you.

  • Beloved

    5
    By HGK2472
    Great book, it’s a difficult and heavy read but it is enjoyable! You have to set time aside to read and dive deep into the different levels of the novel.

  • Great Topic but disruptive storyline

    2
    By ...books...
    Loved the topic, but the narrative was too ethereal and imo lost the cadence of the story line. I got too annoyed with the constant loss of plot line to finish the book. Unfortunate experience with TM.

  • Amazing

    5
    By LunaUki
    Beautiful and capturing story. One of the best books I’ve ever read.

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