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The Color Purple: A Novel

Alice Walker

9780143135692 Penguin Books
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Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness...

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The Color Purple: A Novel

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.

Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers.  An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jesmyn Ward, and more,  The Color Purple remains an essential read in conversation with storytellers today.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into a rich and memorable portrayal of Black women—their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery.

Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, The Color Purple breaks the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, and carries readers on an epic and spirit-affirming journey toward transformation, redemption, and love.

“Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones

“The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon

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Páginas: 304

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Alice Walker nació en Putnam County, Georgia, Estados Unidos, el 9 de febrero de 1944, siendo la pequeña de ocho hermanos en una humilde familia descendiente de esclavos y cherokees. Cuando tenía doce años perdió un ojo jugando a indios ...

Alice Walker nació en Putnam County, Georgia, Estados Unidos, el 9 de febrero de 1944, siendo la pequeña de ocho hermanos en una humilde familia descendiente de esclavos y cherokees. Cuando tenía doce años perdió un ojo jugando a indios y cowboys con sus hermanos, uno de los cuales le disparó con una escopeta de perdigones. Esta experiencia la marcaría de por vida e influiría, como sus orígenes familiares, profundamente en su obra. Debutó en la literatura con el poemario Once en 1968, pero no fue hasta la publicación de la novela epistolar El color púrpura (1982; Premio Pulitzer y National Book Award 1983) que se consagró como escritora. Además de poeta, narradora y ensayista, Walker destaca por su activismo en favor de los derechos de las mujeres, las minorías étnicas y la liberación sexual.

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