![]() ![]() It’s “the big one” - the one that won the Pulitzer and led her to win the Nobel Prize. ![]() I’ve been looking forward to reading Beloved since I started my project of reading all of Toni Morrison’s fiction (in order) earlier this year. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” ![]() When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Ĭombining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. ![]()
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