Beloved by Toni Morrison [FIRST BOOK CLUB PRINTING / 1987]

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

FIRST BOOK CLUB PRINTING [1987] ALFRED A. KNOPF

1st Book Club Ed. / Printing .  1987 hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition. 

Like new and unread.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. -  Bookshop Apocalypse