Beloved

INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio.|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.|INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**|'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’