Foreword by the author. Originally published in 1987, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and ranked by other writers as the best known American novel in the 25 year period 1981- 2006. The story of a previously enslaved family living in Cincinnati after the American Civil War.  Their home is haunted by a malevolent spirit, believed to be a child killed by her mother to save her from returning to slavery. First published in 1987. Adapted for a 1998 movie starring Oprah. Vintage International. Paper. 2004. NEW. $15.00