Toni Morrison

<b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER -</b> <i><b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></i><b> BESTSELLER&#160;- A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.&#160;<br/><br/>This&#160;"brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (<i>People) </i>is an&#160;unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.</b><br/><br/>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.&#160;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.&#160;<br/><br/>"A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." -John Leonard, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>

<b>From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a&#160;passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.</b><br/><br/><b>"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Beloved.</i>... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -<i>Glamour</i><br/></b><br/>In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse.&#160;This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" (<i>People</i>).<i><br/><br/></i>"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women."<i> -<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br/></i>