Zusatztext A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it. John Leonard! Los Angeles Times A triumph. Margaret Atwood! The New York Times Book Review Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent. Chicago Sun-Times Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work. The New York Times A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering. Newsweek Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present. San Francisco Chronicle A brutally powerful! mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble. People Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature. New York Review of Books A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written. The Washington Post There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices! consciously exalted! perversely stressed! yet holding true. It gets you. The New Yorker A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book. The Baltimore Sun Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told. Cosmopolitan Magical . . . rich! provocative! extremely satisfying. Milwaukee Journal Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists. The Plain Dealer Stunning. . . A lasting achievement. The Christian Science Monitor Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration. USA Today Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again! and the story of pain! endurance! poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out. The Village Voice A book worth many rereadings. Glamour In her most probing novel! Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Shattering emotional power and impact. New York Daily News A rich! mythical novel . . . a triumph. St. Petersburg Times Powerful . . . voluptuous. New York Informationen zum Autor Toni Morrison; With a New Introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Klappentext PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story ( People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it. John Leonard, Los Angeles Times Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work. The New York Times I 124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims. The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old--as soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny band ...

#8220;A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, *Los Angeles Times

*“A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, *The New York Times Book Review

*“Toni Morrison’s finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” —*Chicago Sun-Times

*“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —*The New York Times

*“A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering.” —*Newsweek

*“Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present.” —*San Francisco Chronicle

*“A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble.” —*People

*“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” —*New York Review of Books

*“A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written.” —*The Washington Post

“There is something great in Beloved:* a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you.” —*The New Yorker

*“A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book.” —*The Baltimore Sun

*“Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told.” —*Cosmopolitan

*“Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” —*Milwaukee Journal

*“Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” —*The Plain Dealer

*“Stunning. . . A lasting achievement.” —*The Christian Science Monitor

*“Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration.” —*USA Today

*“Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” —*The Village Voice

*“A book worth many rereadings.” —*Glamour

*“In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” —*St. Louis Post-Dispatch

*“Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing.” —*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

*“Shattering emotional power and impact.” —*New York Daily News

*“A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph.” —*St. Petersburg Times

*“Powerful . . . voluptuous.” —*New York
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Toni Morrison; With a New Introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Klappentext

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, *Los Angeles Times

***Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

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124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims. The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old--as soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny band prints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard). Neither boy waited to see more; another kettleful of chickpeas smoking in a heap on the floor; soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Nor did they wait for one of the relief p…