Alice Walker

Un clásico del feminismo y la lucha contra el racismo del siglo XX. Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en Çfrica, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la verguenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta años ambas mantienen el recuerdo y la esperanza de reencontrarse y vuelcan sus sentimientos en unas cartas conmovedoras. Pero la dramatica existencia de Celie cambiara cuando entre en su vida la amante de su marido, una extraordinaria mujer llama Shug Avery. Alice Walker traza en esta ya clasica historia, narrada en formato epistolar, un crudo y sin embargo bello relato del abuso hacia las mujeres y la comunidad afroamericana en los Estados Unidos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El relato de ambas hermanas, merecedor del Premio Pulitzery del National Book Award en 1983, se convierte en simbolo de una lucha que aun a dia de hoy no hemos acabado de librar.La critica ha dicho..."Una de las mas talentosas escritoras estadounidenses."Isabel Allende "Una novela siempre vigente."Newsweek "Alice Walker es una escritora maravillosamente dotada."The New York Times Book Review

'One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read?it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful' Lenny Henry 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.

In this exquisite book, Alice Walkers first new collection of poetry since 1991, are 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 in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us to feeling and understanding, with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to experience life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community. About Walkers Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, America said, In the tradition of Whitman, Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind, and the same can be said about this astonishing new collection, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth.

Kate Talkingtree, an African-American feminist writer who has made it big, decides to join an all-female rafting trip down the Colorado. There she has an epiphany, and when she returns home she eschews sex with her lover, eventually signing on for another trip, this one down the Amazon. There she encounters The Grandmother, who helps her see that all life is one, even extraterrestrials. Back home, Kate and her lover find a way to remain together, and to incorporate in their lives the wisdom of the spirit world.

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 ?nest achievements: the story of a womans spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love. Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its authors hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walkers most surprising achievement.From the Hardcover edition.