A stunning gift package of prize-winning Beloved to commemorate Toni Morrison. WITH AN
INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH AND SPECIAL ARCHIVAL MATERIAL 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 'An American masterpiece' A.S. Byatt 'No other writer in my lifetime or perhaps
ever has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of
the human heart' Kamila Shamsie 'I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space
in the world. I believed her' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That
Shaped Our World**
