The Color Purple (MTI)
A Novel
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The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical
Alice Walker's iconic modern classic, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern 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 twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience.
The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey toward redemption and love.
About this Author
ALICE WALKER is the author of seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. Along with her Pulitzer and National Book Award, Walker has been honored with the O. Henry Award and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction.
Reviews
Praise for The Color Purple:
"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
"A saga filled with joy and pain, humor and bitterness, and an array of characters who live, breathe, and illuminate the world."
--Publishers Weekly
"A novel of permanent importance."
--Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
"Indelibly affecting ... Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A story of revelation . . . One of the great books of our time."
--Essence Magazine
"A work to stand beside literature of any time and place."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Places Walker in the company of Faulkner."
--The Nation
"Remarkable expressiveness, color, and poignancy . . . not only a memorable and infinitely touching character but a whole submerged world is vividly called into being."
--The New York Review of Books
"Richly evocative . . . a vibrant fugue of devotion and search for love."
--Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"A national treasure . . . A rare and lovely book."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"My go-to comfort novel is The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. Even though it touches on difficult subject matter like child abuse and forced marriage, this story believes that human kindness, courage and love can defeat any challenge. Its big, beautiful happy ending is heartfelt and hard-won. Every single time I read this book, I walk away as a slightly better person than I was when I picked it up."
--Tayari Jones, The New York Times
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