Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important position in contemporary American literature. "An American masterpiece," A.S. Byatt calls it. Set in the mid-19th century, as slavery is on the verge of its end, Sethe is haunted by the violent traumas of her past as a slave in Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her deceased daughter, whose tombstone bears only the word "Beloved," returns as a ghost to punish her mother but also to reclaim her love. With heartbreaking clarity, horror and beauty merge in "Beloved," Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece. "Toni Morrison was a giant of her time and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testament to the enduring ravages of slavery and should be read by everyone," wrote Margaret Atwood in The New York Times. Metro calls her "the literary titan from whom we must always learn." This novel won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and is included in the BBC's list of 100 novels that shaped our world.