Beloved - Couverture souple

Morrison, Toni

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099760118 ISBN 13 : 9780099760115

Editeur : Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.

'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece.

'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours..."Beloved," is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times

'The literary titan we must never stop learning from' Metro

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

It is the Mid-1800s. At sweet home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however. Is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death The death of sethe s baby daughter. Beloved. Whose name is the single word on the Tombstone. Who died at her mother s hands, and who will return to claim retribution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099760118
• ISBN 13: 9780099760115
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas