Favored one

Author: Toni Morrison (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: "Your love is too strong!" — A story that can never be repeated!!! Sethe, a female slave pregnant, flees alone from a slave plantation in Kentucky to Cincinnati, Ohio. The slave owner tracks her down; to prevent her children from repeating her own tragic fate as a slave, she resolutely kills her newly crawling daughter, Denver. Eighteen years later, Denver returns to life and lives in the same house as Sethe, Sethe's daughter Denver, and Sethe's lover Paul D. She not only demands double the love from her mother but also harasses and tempts Paul D, using every means to disrupt and destroy her mother's newly warming life. The entire book is filled with bitter poetry and tense suspense. "Your love is too strong!" — A story that can never be repeated!!! Sethe, a female slave pregnant, flees alone from a slave plantation in Kentucky to Cincinnati, Ohio. The slave owner tracks her down; to prevent her children from repeating her own tragic fate as a slave, she resolutely kills her newly crawling daughter, Denver. Eighteen years later, Denver returns to life and lives in the same house as Sethe, Sethe's daughter Denver, and Sethe's lover Paul D. She not only demands double the love from her mother but also harasses and tempts Paul D, using every means to disrupt and destroy her mother's newly warming life. The entire book is filled with bitter poetry and tense suspense.