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