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. 《寵兒》堪稱美國黑人歷史的一座紀念碑。主要情節(jié)取材于一個真實的歷史故事。女黑奴塞絲懷著身孕只身從肯塔基的奴隸莊園逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提,奴隸主循蹤追至,為了使兒女不再重復(fù)自己做奴隸的悲慘命運,她毅然殺死了自己的一個女兒。雖然這已是18年前的往事,但往事的夢魘一刻也不曾停止過對塞絲的糾纏。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. 《寵兒》堪稱美國黑人歷史的一座紀念碑。主要情節(jié)取材于一個真實的歷史故事。女黑奴塞絲懷著身孕只身從肯塔基的奴隸莊園逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提,奴隸主循蹤追至,為了使兒女不再重復(fù)自己做奴隸的悲慘命運,她毅然殺死了自己的一個女兒。雖然這已是18年前的往事,但往事的夢魘一刻也不曾停止過對塞絲的糾纏。