Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Unabridged) Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Unabridged)

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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. 

This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.


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. 

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

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
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Toni Morrison
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:03
hr min
RELEASED
2006
May 16
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
621.6
MB

Customer Reviews

GrandmMB#1 ,

Fantastic story, I didn’t want to miss anything the story had to tell!

Fantastic story, read by the author (who has an excellent story telling voice!).

The history and imagery mixed with the imagination told a great story.

Having the author read the story made all the pauses, tones changes and characters voices and attitudes come alive.

I loved this book, I’ve listened to it multiple times now in sections and twice in its entirety without interruption. I didn’t want to miss anything the story had to tell!

IDoNotCareAllNicknamesAreTaken ,

An uncomfortable story beautifully written and narrated

In addition to being a masterfully written novel, I cannot emphasize enough how pleasant it is to listen to Toni Morrison while drifting off to sleep.

mom tour ,

Beloved

Well written well read. Reading spear at 1 1/4 perfect speed. I loved the magic of the description I got to know the characters and where their minds watched. The words were like music sometimes I drifted then would realize and rewind to listen again. Important to note pieces of history from a non white perspective can be hard for some fro hear but still sparks of truth in a fictional story. Loved it. So happy that small minds rebuked it to draw my attention to truly a beautiful writer and a powerful story and a masterful author. Reading more.