Beloved they imagine it is the

they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality

Barndommens Gade står i dag som en uomtvistelig klassiker

Romanen har dagbogens stemning af uopsættelighed med lynnedslag af skarpe betragtninger

Det er ikke så svært

som han uafladeligt frydes og undrer sig over

Beloved they imagine it is theTerrible, 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.