Beloved

Resumen del libro

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe's house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe's terrible secret explodes into the present.

Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison's unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Toni Morrison x{0026}lt;/B (1931-2019) nació en Lorain (Ohio). Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. Fue autora de las novelas x{0026}lt;I Ojos azulesx{0026}lt;/I (1970), x{0026}lt;I Sula x{0026}lt;/I (1973), x{0026}lt;I La canción de Salomónx{0026}lt;/I (1977, National Book Critics Circle Award en 1978), x{0026}lt;I La isla de los caballerosx{0026}lt;/I (1981), x{0026}lt;I Beloved x{0026}lt;/I (1987, Premio Pulitzer), x{0026}lt;I Jazz x{0026}lt;/I (1992), x{0026}lt;I Paraíso x{0026}lt;/I (1997), x{0026}lt;I Amor x{0026}lt;/I (2003), x{0026}lt;I Una bendición x{0026}lt;/I (2008; Lumen, 2009), x{0026}lt;I Volver x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2012) y x{0026}lt;I La noche de los niñosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), y de ensayos como x{0026}lt;I El origen de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018). x{0026}lt;I La fuente de la autoestimax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2020) es su último libro. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.x{0026}lt;/P