The classic novel dealing with family and slavery in America, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was voted best work of American fiction of the last 25 years by the }New York Times{ in 2006. 'A magnificent achievement' A.S. Byatt, }Guardian Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. 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.