Alice Walker

Un clásico del feminismo y la lucha contra el racismo del siglo XX. Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en África, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la verguenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta años ambas mantienen el recuerdo y la esperanza de reencontrarse y vuelcan sus sentimientos en unas cartas conmovedoras. Pero la dramatica existencia de Celie cambiara cuando entre en su vida la amante de su marido, una extraordinaria mujer llama Shug Avery. Alice Walker traza en esta ya clasica historia, narrada en formato epistolar, un crudo y sin embargo bello relato del abuso hacia las mujeres y la comunidad afroamericana en los Estados Unidos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El relato de ambas hermanas, merecedor del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award en 1983, se convierte en simbolo de una lucha que aun a dia de hoy no hemos acabado de librar.La critica ha dicho...Una de las mas talentosas escritoras estadounidenses.Isabel Allende Una novela siempre vigente.Newsweek Alice Walker es una escritora maravillosamente dotada.The New York Times Book Review El color purpura situa a Walker a la altura de Faulkner.The NationGenial. Un libro para enmarcar junto a los clasicos de la literatura de todos los tiempos.San Francisco Chronicle

Un clásico del feminismo y la lucha contra el racismo del siglo XX. Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en África, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la verguenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta años ambas mantienen el recuerdo y la esperanza de reencontrarse y vuelcan sus sentimientos en unas cartas conmovedoras. Pero la dramatica existencia de Celie cambiara cuando entre en su vida la amante de su marido, una extraordinaria mujer llama Shug Avery. Alice Walker traza en esta ya clasica historia, narrada en formato epistolar, un crudo y sin embargo bello relato del abuso hacia las mujeres y la comunidad afroamericana en los Estados Unidos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El relato de ambas hermanas, merecedor del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award en 1983, se convierte en simbolo de una lucha que aun a dia de hoy no hemos acabado de librar.La critica ha dicho...Una de las mas talentosas escritoras estadounidenses.Isabel Allende Una novela siempre vigente.Newsweek Alice Walker es una escritora maravillosamente dotada.The New York Times Book Review El color purpura situa a Walker a la altura de Faulkner.The NationGenial. Un libro para enmarcar junto a los clasicos de la literatura de todos los tiempos.San Francisco Chronicle

The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.

The new novel from the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, This legendary writer, who with her pen has changed lives and moved minds (Pride)

Alice Walkers powerful first novel.

Alice Walker in this, the most beautiful, the most compassionate, the most sensuous of novels, has created a masterpiece. It is one of the most life-enhancing novels you could hope to read. Flawless

Lauréat du prix Pulitzer et de lAmerican Book Award en 1983, La Couleur pourpre a été adapté au cinéma en 1984 par Steven Spielberg.Dans la grande tradition du roman sudiste, La Couleur pourpre, dénonçant loppression raciale et sexuelle dont furent victimes les femmes noires, a fait date. Celie et Nettie sont deux soeurs separees a ladolescence mais liees par un amour indefectible que ne terniront ni les brimades ni le mepris, ni les guerres ni labsence. Celie, mariee enfant a un homme violent, ne reçoit pas les lettres que lui adresse Nettie, devenue missionnaire en Afrique, car son epoux les subtilise. Ignorant ladresse de sa soeur, elle-meme envoie ses lettres au Bon Dieu. Une correspondance sans espoir de reponse mais qui sauvera les deux femmes du desespoir." Une celebration eclatante de ce que signifie etre une femme noire. La Couleur pourpre nessaie pas dadoucir la realite mais saccroche, courageusement, a une foi magnifique et revendiquee en lavenir, le pardon, la bonte et lespoir. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Un roman indisponible depuis des décennies, jamais paru en poche, par lautrice de La Couleur pourpre.Réfugiées venues dAmérique latine, filles ou épouses de missionnaires, exploratrices, aventurières

The real story behind the making of THE COLOR PURPLE in the authors own wordsIn the early 1980s, The Color Purple was a runaway success, it had won the Pulitzer Prize and Steven Spielberg was making the book into a film.Yet behind all the critical success, Alice Walker suffered an extreme backlash as she became the object of attacks both personal and political.Her detractors claimed that she hated black men, that her work was injurious to black male and female relationships; and that her ideas about equality were harmful to the black community. Such was the ferocity of these attacks that she left her own community north of San Francisco and sought refuge in Mexico.On a personal level, her mother had suffered a major stroke and now Alice Walker herself fell gravely ill with the extremely debilitating condition, Lyme disease. To add to the trauma, her partner of many years announced hed been having an affair.In her heartfelt and extremely personal account of this time, Alice Walker describes the experience of watching the film being made as she weathered the controversy surrounding it and came to terms with the changes in her own life.

'One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read?it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful' Lenny Henry Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is separated from her sister Nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous Shug Avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the support of women that enables her to leave the past behind and begin a new life.