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Narrated by:
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Toni Morrison
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Written by:
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Toni Morrison
About this listen
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. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
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.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Critic Reviews
“A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
“A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
“Toni Morrison’s finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” —Chicago Sun-Times
What listeners say about Beloved
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- Rebecca Vedavathy. B
- 01-08-23
Stunning
Poetry in motion. Haunting story. Beloved will stay with me for a long time to come.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Sonam Gangwar
- 21-04-21
A haunting story of the horrors of slavery
Sethe lived with her daughter Denver in a house haunted by the ghost of her dead daughter. Her two sons have left the house. It has been 18 years since she fled Sweet Home, the farm where she was a slave, but she is still not free. The horrific actions that she witnessed in Sweet Home have left scars on her body and soul and she could never really cope.
When Paul D, a fellow ex-slave from Sweet Home re-enters her life and fights away the ghost, things seemingly start to get better. But what comes back in the place of the ghost is far more dangerous. How the family will face and survive the trials, we will come to know.
The story moves back and forth between the past and present. Sometimes it even feels like poetry.
Honestly, it was kind of hard for me to understand what was happening near the end of the novel. But overall it was a heart-touching gripping story of people who had been treated more like animals and property than human. The story of people who fear to love because they know what they love can be taken away any moment. Now they are free but...
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another" - Toni Morrison
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Drbookempress
- 18-04-24
the past haunts you like a ghost !
the sensory metaphorical language of thought was a little difficult to ubderstand. narration was brilliant
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