Beloved

Quel est le sujet du livre "Beloved"

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single Beloved.

Auteurs :

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."

Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels
The Bluest Eye
,
Song of Solomon
, and
Beloved
, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal.

The classic novel dealing with family andslavery in America, which won the PulitzerPrize and was voted best work of Americanfiction of the last 25 years by the  "New YorkTimes" in 2006. 'A magnificent achievement' A.S. Byatt, "Guardian"

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