Beloved: A Novel

Toni Morrison

Plume Book, 1988 - Počet stran: 275

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story ... read it and tremble. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven into this circular, mesmerizing narrative are the horrible truths of Sethe's past: the incredible cruelties she endured as a slave, and the hardships she suffered in her journey north to freedom. Just as Sethe finds the past too painful to remember, and the future just "a matter of keeping the past at bay," her story is almost too painful to read. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyones future.

Co říkají ostatní

Review: Beloved

Recenze od uživatele  - Kim - Goodreads

Difficult to get through at times, but it was a worthwhile read. As much as I disliked Denver at the start of the book, she became my favorite character by the end. She grew so much as the story progressed.

Review: Beloved

Recenze od uživatele  - Jenna Barley - Goodreads

I first read this book over 20 years ago and I still think it is one of the most beautifully written things I've ever read.

Obsah

• Chapter Two: 75
• Chapter Three: 149

O autorovi

Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

Bibliografické údaje

• Titul: Beloved: A Novel; Plume Contemporary Fiction Series; Plume Books; Plume Fiction
• Autor: Toni Morrison
• Vydání: dotisk, nové vydání, ilustrované vydání
• Vydavatel: Plume Book, 1988
• ISBN: 0452264464, 9780452264465
• Délka: Počet stran: 275