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Zusatztext “A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard! Los Angeles Times “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood! The New York Times Book Review “Toni Morrison’s finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” — Chicago Sun-Times “Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” — The New York Times “A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering.” — Newsweek “Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present.” — San Francisco Chronicle “A brutally powerful! mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble.” — People “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” — New York Review of Books “A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written.” — The Washington Post “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices! consciously exalted! perversely stressed! yet holding true. It gets you.” — The New Yorker “A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book.” — The Baltimore Sun “Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told.” — Cosmopolitan “Magical . . . rich! provocative! extremely satisfying.” — Milwaukee Journal “Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” — The Plain Dealer “Stunning. . . A lasting achievement.” — The Christian Science Monitor “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration.” — USA Today “Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again! and the story of pain! endurance! poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” — The Village Voice “A book worth many rereadings.” — Glamour “In her most probing novel! Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Shattering emotional power and impact.” — New York Daily News “A rich! mythical novel . . . a triumph.” — St. Petersburg Times “Powerful . . . voluptuous.” — New York Informationen zum Autor Toni Morrison was born in Lorain! Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County! New York! and Princeton! New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor! Council of the Humanities! Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: Paradise ! The Bluest Eye ! Sula ! Song of Solomon! which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction! Tar Baby and Beloved! which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. I 124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims. The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old--as soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny band prints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard). Neither boy waited to see more; another kettleful of chickpeas smoking in a heap on the floor; soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Nor did they wait for one of the relief periods: the weeks, months even, when nothing was disturbed. No. Each one fled at once--the moment the house committed what was for him the one insult not to be borne or witnessed a second time. Within two months, in th...
