Beloved

Synopsis Set After The American Civil War (1861-1865), The Novel Is Inspired By The Story Of An African American Slave, Margaret Garner, Who Escaped Slavery In Kentucky Late January 1856 By Fleeing To Ohio, A Free State. In The Novel, The Protagonist Sethe Is Also A Slave Who Escapes Slavery, Running To Cincinnati, Ohio. After Twenty-eight Days Of Freedom, A Posse Arrives To Retrieve Her And Her Children Under The Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850, Which Gave Slave Owners The Right To Pursue Slaves Across State Borders. Sethe Kills Her Two-year-old Daughter Rather Than Allow Her To Be Recaptured And Taken Back To Sweet Home, The Kentucky Plantation From Which Sethe Recently Fled. A Woman Presumed To Be Her Daughter, Called Beloved, Returns Years Later To Haunt Sethe's Home At 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. By Toni Morrison ; [with A New Foreword By The Author]. Originally Published: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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.

Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.
À propos de l'auteur
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.