Toni Morrison - Beloved
Harriett Gilbert talks to author Toni Morrison about her book Beloved.
World Book Club celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of that modern classic novel Beloved with another chance to hear the programme with American writer Toni Morrison.
In 2009 Toni Morrison came to the South Bank Arts Centre beside the River Thames in London to talk to a packed audience about her Pulitzer Prize-winning, international bestseller Beloved.
Having lost none of its power to shock a quarter of a century on, Beloved stares unflinchingly into the abyss of racism and transforms history into a poetic chronicle of slavery and its terrible, unending aftermath.
(Image: Toni Morrison. Credit: Peter Devlin)
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- Sat 7 Apr 2012 21:05GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
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