Beloved

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

“A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review

“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” —New York Review of Books

Published June 8, 2004