Inspired by a true story that occurred in 1856, Beloved exhumes the horror and madness of a painful past. Sethe is a former slave who, in the name of love and freedom, killed the child she cherished so as not to see her live the degrading experience of servitude. A few years later, the ghost of Beloved, the little girl who disappeared, painfully returns to haunt her guilty mother. Far from all clichés, Toni Morrison revives memory, exorcises the past and transcends the pain of the oppressed.

"His work, which comes to restore to America the memory, the imagination and the language of his community, probes contemporary society by transgressing all taboos." Le Point

“A moving, violent and painful novel, which earned its author the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.” Éliane Vipois, Lire