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**