["Beloved was written by an African American feminine icon, Toni Morrison, and published in 1987. It took the literary world of the African American community in the United States by storm.", "Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent", "Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from", "Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present--and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its", "Beloved by Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (1987) that confronts the haunting legacy of American slavery through the story of Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman living in post-Civil War Ohio", "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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a"]