Beloved
by Toni Morrison
1987
Winner of the Pulitzer prize for fiction, Morrison’s devastating account of formerly enslaved people after the American civil war was loosely based on the life of Margaret Garner, who killed her own daughter to spare her from being forced back into slavery. The novelist described Beloved as a story about “the pitched battle between remembering and forgetting”. This uncanny, literally haunted portrait of both physical and psychological violence remains one of the most banned and challenged books in American libraries, and one of the most cherished. In 1993, Morrison became the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature.
First sentence
“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.”
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