PULITZER PRIZE WINNER âĸ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âĸ This "powerful, mesmerizing storyâ (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author.
âA masterwork.... Wonderful.... I canât imagine American literature without it.â âJohn 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 Setheâs new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
âDazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.â âThe New York Times