# Beloved, Vol. 1

By **Toni Morrison**

- ISBN-13: 9781784876432
- Series: [Untitled](https://mybookbandits.com/series/untitled-184)
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pages: 384
- Published: 1 Jan 2022
- Language: en
- Price: £16.31 (new)
- Categories: Fiction, Magical Realism, Family Life, Psychological, Literary, Historical, 20th Century, World Literature, American, African American & Black

## About this book

Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel Beloved initiates the Untitled series as its first volume, a profound work of historical and psychological fiction. Set in the aftermath of slavery, it follows Sethe, a woman who escaped a brutal Kentucky plantation called Sweet Home but remains imprisoned by memory. Her Ohio home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious young woman named Beloved, who embodies the ghost of her dead child and forces a reckoning with unspeakable trauma.

A landmark of American and world literature, this novel blends African American experience with elements of magical realism to explore family bonds, the lasting wounds of slavery, and the ferocity of a mother’s love. Beloved stands as a 20th-century masterpiece, cementing Morrison’s legacy as a literary titan.

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