Beloved

Informationen zum Autor Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye , Sula , Beloved , Paradise and Love . 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. Klappentext It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Zusammenfassung The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.1999
• EAN: 9780099273936
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927393-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Magical Realism, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Narrative theme: Social issues, Magical Realism, Classic fiction, United States of America, USA, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Slavery and abolition of slavery