Alice Walker

Il colore viola è la storia di due sorelle, Celie e Nettie, in fuga da un padre violento e da un passato di abusi. Mentre Celie, privata dei suoi figli, si ricostruisce a fatica una vita con un matrimonio combinato e una nuova famiglia caotica e bizzarra, di Nettie si perdono le tracce. Ma l'incontro con Shug Avery, la misteriosa cantante di blues di cui suo marito è innamorato da sempre, permetterà a Celie di fare una scoperta, e i legami di sangue...

The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author

"A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as only she can. . . . Once again, Walker has exceeded our expectations." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

When the United States recently exploded with unprecedented demonstrations

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes a passage...

"I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one" So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality,...

Nesta história pungente e poderosa, Meridian trava uma batalha solitária para reaformar sua própria humanidade no Movimento pelos direitos civis nos Estados Unidos. Meridian é o segundo romance de Alice Walker, ganhadora do prêmio Pulitzer e do American Book Award por A cor púrpura. Escrita em 1976, a narrativa reflete as meditações e vivências da própria autora acerca dos caminhos e desafios do movimento pelos direitos civis nos Estados...

Um clássico da literatura. Um importante manifesto. Um clássico da literatura americana, aclamado pela crítica e amado por sucessivas gerações de leitores. Tão relevante hoje quanto no ano da sua publicação, é umaextraordinária peça de ficção que combate o ódio, a desigualdade e a violência, ao mesmo tempo que celebra o amor pela vida. «Uma exuberante celebração do que significa ser mulher.» Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Celie, de 14...

Here is a glorious, offbeat, and compassionate memoir in which Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and utterly captivating, Walker addresses her "girls" directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, during her travels to Bali and Dharamsala as an activist for peace and justice. On the way, she invites readers...

Through her books The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker is familiar to millions of readers. Who is this woman, who rose from the shadows of the segregated South to win the Pulitzer Prize? How did she find the courage to address with grace and wisdom the most difficult cultural issues of our time?
On My Life as Myself, Alice Walker takes you into her private world

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Alice Walker's first published book collects poems written as a student and on her first visit to Africa  For readers seeking the origins of Alice Walker's potent, distinctive voice, this collection will provide ample insight. Composed while she was still a student at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1960s, these poems are already engaged with some of the moral dilemmas that have defined Walker's entire career. Luminous vignettes from her first...

Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker's Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden. In powerfully reflective, nuanced, and above all heartfelt prose, Walker explores the seeds of hatred and resentment around the globe, and advances a surprisingly controversial theory: that hatred can never be defeated by hatred, but only by love....