Beloved
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It 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 to...
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It 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. 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**
Detaljer
Forlag
Vintage
ISBN
9780099760115
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
352
Udgivelsesdato
21-08-1997
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1115440
EAN nr.
9780099760115
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
22
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
131
Vægt (g)
248