The Color Purple

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, "The Color Purple "is the moving story of a young woman s endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and musical. Paired here with "The Temple of My Familiar," which the author describes as a romance of the last 500,000 years, this edition brings together two works that established Walker as a major voice in modern fiction."