内容简介
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. Filled
with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved" "is a
towering achievement.
作者简介
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the
second of four children in a black working-class family. Displayed
an early interest in literature. Studied humanities at Howard and
Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas
Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a
chair at Princeton University. She has also worked as an editor for
Random House, a critic, and given numerous public lectures,
specializing in African-American literature. She made her debut as
a novelist in 1970, soon gaining the attention of both critics and
a wider audience for her epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and
her poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black
America. A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, she has been awarded a number of literary distinctions,
among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.