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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This “powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

“A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

From the Publisher

Quote from Los Angeles Times and Margaret Atwood

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 8, 2004
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 321 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400033411
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400033416
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.15 x 0.8 x 7.95 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #13 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #22 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #75 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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