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. Bernardine Evaristo, MBE , is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's Style magazine. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in 2009. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband. www.bevaristo.com Klappentext INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Zusammenfassung INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Assisted by: Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9780099540977
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954097-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• 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