by Alice Walker · Orion Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781474607254
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«The Color Purple» is Alice Walker's epistolary novel, published by Orion Group in paperback (262 pages, in English).
Celie, a young Black woman in the rural South of the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, narrates her life in letters addressed to God and to her sister Nettie. Marked by poverty and abuse, she finds in the singer Shug Avery and in writing a way to rebuild her identity, her dignity, and her hope.
First instalment of the The Color Purple Collection series. The work won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983; this edition is from 2017.
For readers of modern classics, feminist literature, African American fiction and LGBTQ+ themes; also for book clubs.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
