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A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with weidenfeld & nicolsons 60th anniversary designed by the award-winning advertising agency fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists the endpapers for this title have been designed by carl kleiner 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 one of the most haunting books you could ever wish to readit is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful lenny henry the pulitzer-prize winning novel that made alice walker a household name about the author: alice walker won the pulitzer prize and the american book award for the color purple she is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including meridian, by the light of my fathers smile and the third life of grange copeland

A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.