Beloved

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. 

This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.

Toni Morrison's masterpiece explores the profound psychological and emotional aftermath of slavery through the haunting story of Sethe, an enslaved woman who commits an unthinkable act to protect her children from bondage. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel weaves together magical realism, fragmented narratives, and lyrical prose to examine trauma, motherhood, and the search for identity in the aftermath of systemic oppression. Morrison's unflinching examination of slavery's legacy remains essential reading for understanding American history and literature. A transformative work that challenges readers to confront brutal truths with compassion and depth.

"A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times