书名：Beloved宠儿英版

作者：Toni Morrison
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2017
语种：英语
ISBN：9780099760115
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：288（以实物为准）

★要么是爱，要么不是。不浓烈的爱根本就不是爱。
★诺贝尔文学奖得主托妮·莫里森代表作
★普利策奖小说
★美国文学的里程碑
★《纽约时报》“25年来佳美国小说”第1名
★一部惊世之作，很难想象没有它的美国文学会是什么样子。——《洛杉矶时报》

Beloved《宠儿》是美国著名作家托妮·莫里森的作品。《宠儿》取材于一段真实的历史。作品令人触目惊心：女黑奴塞丝在携女逃亡途中遭到追捕，因不愿看到孩子重又沦为奴隶，她毅然扼杀了自己的幼女……十八年后奴隶制早已废除，而被她杀死的女婴还魂归来，以自己的出现日夜惩罚母亲当年的行为，往事的梦魇一刻也不曾停止过对塞丝的纠缠。
 
《宠儿》是托妮·莫里森的第5部长篇小说，1988年莫里森因该书获得普利策奖，1993年更凭借该书和《所罗门之歌》、《爵士乐》等作品荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。

Review
"‘Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all’"

"‘I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her’"

"‘[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind’"

"‘No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart’"

"‘Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known’"

"‘Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen’"

"‘Morrison’s legacy in commemorating slavery’s survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come'"

"‘Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together’"
塞丝只身逃出庄园。面对绝望的命运，她下定决心，亲手杀了刚刚会爬的幼女宠儿……

十八年后，“宠儿”还魂，重返人间。这一次，她要不择手段地摧毁母亲的生活。
宠儿是我的姐姐。我就着妈妈的奶水吞下了她的血。
宠儿是我的女儿。我以前没有时间解释，因为那事必须当机立断。
我是宠儿，她是我的。现在，我在这所房子里找到了她。我再也不会失去她了……
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.