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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

Toni Morrison

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. Week 18: Pulitzer Book

* Week 18: Progress Post
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Mar 04, 2017 Veena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, classic

'Dearly Beloved' is what she wanted on the headstone. But 'Beloved' is all she got. The price of which was ten minutes of sex with the engraver. Later she thought she might have got 'Dearly' too or maybe the entire preaching for twenty minutes or forty. But she managed to get what mattered to most. She was 'Beloved' whether anyone one believed it or not.
Toni Morrison is the voice of African-American literature. Beloved won her Pulitzer and when you read the book you are not surprised at all. A ...more

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May 22, 2014 Lalo rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nobel, 2015, 2015-challenge, top100-bokklubben

Otro libro con mucho pedigree que siento que me quedó a deber. Beloved es una novela galardonada con el Pulitzer en 1988 y escrita por Toni Morrison, ganadora del Nobel de literatura de 1993.

Sin embargo el libro me pareció tedioso en ratos y en algunas ocasiones revuelto, Beloved me fastidió y hartó, y aunque está muy bien escrito y con montón de profundidad en cada personaje. Pero soy honesto al decir que el realismo mágico no es mi estilo literario favorito. Beloved aunque me abrió los ojos a ...more

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