When you read other books by Toni Morrison, you know why they gave her the Nobel. However, when you read Beloved, you understand in a deep sense why she deserved it.

This book it's like a painting of shadows. The more you look, the more the image it's defined, the more you see details and discover the story. It's a dark, rich story full of pain and of beauty. Invites to reflection without asking more than attention, specially in the first part. However, it involves you once the story gets a grip.

Morrison uses the pain of slavery to explore the break between the before and after for a slaved, now free, woman and her descendants. It doesn't preach nor romantices, just tells direct what's happening, what they are feeling, what are the demons that horror ingrains in human beings after a trauma.

Nothing in this book it's left for interpretation. Every little word, line, metaphor, has a why and it's so wonderful.