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A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and there discovery of o... మరిన్ని

In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social... మరిన్ని

A collection of essays by Alice Walker covering topics of feminism and race. Some of the themes included in her award winning novel "The Color Purple" are reflected in several of these essays. The final one tells of how she was blinded in one eye at age 8.... మరిన్ని

In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her poetry coll... మరిన్ని

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Color Purplegives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems inAbsolut... మరిన్ని

Here is a glorious, offbeat, compassionate, and "eccentrically inspirational" (Kirkus Reviews) 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" directl... మరిన్ని

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a "lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times), Walker imbues her poetry with evocative image... మరిన్ని

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called "stunningly insightful" and "a book that will inspire hope" by Publishers Weekly.Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political conviction... మరిన్ని

Kate, a successful author fearful of aging and uncertain about continuing her relationship with Yolo, an artist, sets off on a journey of spiritual discovery. She has been profoundly unhappy for some time, dreaming of rivers, until she takes off for rivers--the Colorado and the Amazon. Among strange... మరిన్ని

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker ... మరిన్ని

Comprising two volumes - In Love and Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - this collection is a rich smorgasbord of tales that showcases three decades of the author's work. From the diary of an African nun, to a married woman taking her first lover, they show the immense range of Alice Wal... మరిన్ని

From the author of The Color Purple, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism. In a world where cynicism and political apathy is commonplace, Alice Walker believes that the things we treasure, and the world we live in, can all be saved if only we will act. Beginning with an auto... మరిన్ని

This is the story of Tashi Johnson, a tribal African woman who has undergone genital mutilation in an act of loyalty to her customs. Severely traumatised by her experience she spends the rest of her life battling madness while at the same time beginning to understand the reasons invented for what wa... మరిన్ని

A woman must come to terms with the circumcision she endured as a child in AfricaIn Tashi's tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo circumcision as an initiation into the community. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and li... మరిన్ని

In Walker's follow-up to The Color Purple, webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience i... మరిన్ని

Walker's collection of early nonfiction serves as the manifesto of a young artist--and an illuminating self-portrait What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers t... మరిన్ని

Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression<P><P> Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing... మరిన్ని

A woman puts her own happiness aside in pursuit of justice as the civil rights movement sweeps through the South As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She's looking for a second chance, and at a small college outside Atlan... మరిన్ని

In Walker's second collection of essays, the author helps readers understand her ambitions as an artist, citizen of the world, and spiritual seeker In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, f... మరిన్ని

Though they come from wildly different backgrounds, the women in these stories all strive for liberation from painful realities Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own ... మరిన్ని

The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history... మరిన్ని

In Alice Walker's fourth collection of poetry, simple observations from a life well lived balance an unflinching examination of critical global worries The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgav... మరిన్ని

In Alice Walker's second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis This collection builds on Alice Walker's earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, pr... మరిన్ని

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 la... మరిన్ని

The highly acclaimed first two novels by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and “a lavishly gifted writer” (The New York Times Book Review). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple—which also won the National Book Award and was adapt... మరిన్ని