After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven into this circular, mesmerizing narrative are the horrible truths of Sethe's past: the incredible cruelties she endured as a slave, and the hardships she suffered in her journey north to freedom. Just as Sethe finds the past too painful to remember, and the future just "a matter of keeping the past at bay," her story is almost too painful to read. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyones future.
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عنوان
Beloved.
عنوان اصلی به زبان دیگر
عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر
Beloved a novel
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
African American women, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Infanticide, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Women slaves, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
African Americans-- Ohio-- History-- 19th century, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
African American women.
موضوع مستند نشده
Infanticide.
موضوع مستند نشده
Slavery-- Fiction.-- Ohio.
موضوع مستند نشده
Women slaves.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Ohio, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Ohio.
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
7
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
813/
.
54
ويراست
19
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PS3563
.
O8749
نشانه اثر
B4
1987
سایر رده بندی ها
شماره رده
HU
4570
شماره رده
HU
9800
شماره رده
LIT
440
MORR
5
شماره رده
SCHO
̈
2
کد سيستم
rvk
کد سيستم
rvk
کد سيستم
sfb
کد سيستم
sfb
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