Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe?s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe?s terrible secret explodes into the present.

Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison?s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

316 pages

Médias	Livres Book
Validé	17 octobre 2006
ISBN13	9780307264886
Éditeurs	Random House USA Inc
Pages	316
Dimensions	212 × 136 × 30 mm · 508 g
Langue et grammaire	Anglais
Contributeur	A. S. Byatt