Beloved

Pulitzer Prize Winner

De: Toni Morrison, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - introduction

Narrado por: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.

“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

Reseñas de la Crítica

“A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

“A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review

“Toni Morrison’s finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

“A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering.” —Newsweek

“Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble.” —People

“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” —New York Review of Books

“A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written.” —The Washington Post

“There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you.” —The New Yorker

“A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book.” —The Baltimore Sun

“Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told.” —Cosmopolitan

“Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” —Milwaukee Journal

“Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” —The Plain Dealer

“Stunning. . . A lasting achievement.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration.” —USA Today

“Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” —The Village Voice

“A book worth many rereadings.” —Glamour

“In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Shattering emotional power and impact.” —New York Daily News

“A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph.” —St. Petersburg Times

“Powerful . . . voluptuous.” —New York

The author's voice

I loved getting to hear this read by the great Toni Morrison. She was perfect.

Narrator needs to speak louder

The book is good. No issues with the story. However, the author/narrator whispers most of the story. If you are listening in a car and have traffic noise, it will be difficult to hear.

Interesting Story Hurt by the Narration

This was a chore to get through even though I was very interested in the story from start to finish.

I had the impression not that Toni Morrison was a poor narrator, as others have concluded, but that she may have been allowed to do the recording into a microphone while at home rather than in a recording booth with a sound engineer monitoring her progress and adjusting for optimal recording.

It's very hard to hear and just doesn't seem recorded properly.

Aside from that the book was thought provoking and inventive and entertaining, and watching the film version right after I finished the book it's interesting to see how even though so much of what's in the book is on film, the average viewer probably wouldn't understand what they were seeing unless they had read the book.

At any rate, I'm glad I bought and listened to the book, it was a chore at times, but it was worth it.

I literally found it best to listen to this with earphones because so much got lost otherwise over a speaker, and when playing on a speaker it REALLY had to be turned up to hear and discern what was being said.

The book is great. It's a shame it will never likely be re-recorded by another narrator.

Excellent

Just unadulterated genius. A classic well worth the read. Highly recommend. I will buy a hard copy to have for my collection. I am ashamed I don't already have it.

Audio book version is amazing

To have the belated Toni Morrison read to you this story with the cadence she sought in her writing, adds another dimension this audio book . Wonderful.