{"product_id":"9781474625586","title":"The Color Purple : A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - Alice Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A story about Black women living in the intersections of racialized and gendered violence, who find liberation through community with each other. A brutal and beautiful novel'Brit Bennett'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'I think that The Color Purple was the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South'Jesmyn Ward'I got the book and read it, in one day, when it came out. And then I went back, the next day, and bought every copy they had'Oprah WinfreySisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up as African American women in early twentieh-century rural Georgia. Forced into an abusive marriage, at least Celie can offer Nettie refuge from their violent father in her new home - until Nettie catches the attention of Celie's husband and is forced to leave and forge her own journey. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years - first from Celie to God, then between the two sisters - they manage to sustain their hope in each other across time, distance and silence, in a triumph of resilience, bravery and ultimately, love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice Walker","offers":[{"title":"272 pages \/ 04\/08\/2022 \/ Historical fiction","offer_id":56968186233207,"sku":"9781474625586","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781474625586_703081e0-b9a9-49ad-b5b6-e7ad6abc9acb.jpg?v=1780936915","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781474625586","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}