The Color Purple (MTI): A Novel

by Alice Walker

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0735249059
  • ISBN13 9780735249059
  • Publish Date 5 December 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Penguin Canada