Beloved (Picador Book)

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 ByattIt 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’ MetroWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Review 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’‘Morrison is to me the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen’‘Morrison’s legacy in commemorating slavery’s survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come‘Her every word a caress her every sentence an embrace her every paragraph a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you I see you we are together’‘I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors doors that seemed they might always be shut doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all’‘Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry’‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century’‘[Toni Morrison’s] irreverence was godly’ ―GuardianA beautiful book and its beautifully written -- Kit de Waal ―Good Housekeeping UKMy favourite book of all time -- Sareeta Domingo ―Good HousekeepingMorrisons stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway Updike and DeLillo -- Trevor Phillips ―Sunday Times[A] beautiful haunting novel -- Stig Abell ―Sunday TimesA triumph -- Margaret Atwood ―New York Times Book ReviewA magnificent achievement... An American masterpiece -- A. S. Byatt ―GuardianThere is something great inBeloved: a play of human voices consciously exalted perversely stressed yet holding true. It gets you ―New YorkerToni 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 About the Author Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels includingThe Bluest EyeSulaBelovedParadise andLove. 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.