Literary fiction

Beloved

Toni Morrison

A profound novel about memory that will not stay buried.

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Genre

Historical literary fiction

Subgenre

Ghost story of slavery and memory

Original publication

September 1987

Original publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pages

324

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

Cincinnati after the American Civil War

ISBN

9781400033416

Original title

Beloved

memory slavery motherhood trauma ghost history freedom family literary

About the book

Sethe's haunted home forces the buried trauma of slavery, motherhood and survival into the present.

A major recommendation for readers asking for literary depth, memory, haunting, slavery, motherhood and historical trauma.

Morrison blends realism and haunting to show how history lives inside language, bodies and homes.

It is a demanding, luminous match for readers seeking serious literary fiction with emotional and historical force.

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