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Discover Toni Morrisons most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.

An American masterpiece AS Byatt

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrisons enduring masterpiece.

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 Margaret Atwood, New York Times

The literary titan we must never stop learning from Metro

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

**One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**