Beloved by Toni Morrison (English) Paperback Book

Description: Beloved by Toni Morrison The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethes baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mothers hands, and who will return to claim retribution.**One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Sethes baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mothers hands, and who will return to claim retribution.**One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Author Biography 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, Americas highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight. Review 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 allI adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mindNo other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heartToni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known Kirkus UK Review This is Morrisons masterwork for which she was awarded the Pulitzer and, subsequently, the Nobel Prize. It is an unflinchingly tough and heart-wrenching novel, examining the ghosts of slavery in the lives of black American women. Sethe has killed her own daughter, Beloved, with a saw rather than return her to the plantations. Some years later, in the summer of 1873, a troubled and oddly familiar young woman appears in Sethes life. Has the past caught up with her at last? Beloved is a novel of great lyrical beauty and emotional intensity. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Morrisons truly majestic fifth novel - strong and intricate in craft; devastating in impact. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of how former slaves, psychically crippled by years of outrage to their bodies and their humanity, attempt to "beat hack the past," while the ghosts and wounds of that past ravage the present. The Ohio house where Sethe and her second daughter, ten-year-old Denver, live in 1873 is "spiteful. Full of a [dead] babys venom." Sethes mother-in-law, a good woman who preached freedom to slave minds, has died grieving. It was she who nursed Sethe, the runaway - near death with a newborn - and gave her a brief spell of contentment when Sethe was reunited with her two boys and first baby daughter. But the boys have by now run off, scared, and the murdered first daughter "has palsied the house" with rage. Then to the possessed house comes Paul D., one of the "Pauls" who, along with Sethe, had been a slave on the "Sweet Home" plantation under two owners - one "enlightened," one vicious. (But was there much difference between them?) Sethe will honor Paul D.s humiliated manhood; Paul D. will banish Sethes ghost, and hear her stories from the past. But the one story she does not tell him will later drive him away - as it drove away her boys, and as it drove away the neighbors. Before he leaves, Paul D. will be baffled and anxious about Sethes devotion to the strange, scattered and beautiful lost girl, "Beloved." Then, isolated and alone together for years, the three women will cling to one another as mother, daughter, and sister - found at last and redeemed. Finally, the ex-slave community, rebuilding on ashes, will intervene, and Beloveds tortured vision of a mothers love - refracted through a short nightmare life - will end with her death. Morrison traces the shifting shapes of suffering and mythic accommodations, through the shell of psychosis to the core of a victims dark violence, with a lyrical insistence and a clear sense of the time when a beleaguered peoples "only grace. . .was the grace they could imagine." (Kirkus Reviews) Prizes Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 (United States) Review Text 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 Review Quote 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 Details ISBN0099273934 Author Toni Morrison Year 1999 ISBN-10 0099273934 ISBN-13 9780099273936 Format Paperback Publication Date 1999-03-04 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Short Title BELOVED Language English Residence US Birth 1931 Series Vintage Books Pages 352 Translated from English Edition Film Tie-In Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage UK Release Date 1999-03-04 AU Release Date 1999-03-04 NZ Release Date 1999-03-04 Narrator Jesse Vilinsky Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications M.D. Edition Description Media tie-in Audience General Alternative 9780099540977 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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