Cette collection explore la vie des femmes noires dans le Sud américain au début du XXe siècle. Elle relate leurs luttes contre l'oppression et la violence, retraçant leurs parcours vers la découverte de soi et l'émancipation. À travers des personnages féminins captivants et leurs relations interconnectées, ces œuvres illustrent comment l'amour et l'espoir peuvent être trouvés même dans les circonstances les plus sombres. C'est un récit puissant de résilience, de pardon et de la force durable de l'esprit féminin.
Set in the segregated world of America's Deep South, this work tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father and having had her two children taken from her, she meets Shug Avery - a glamorous singer and magic maker, and discovers the love and support of a woman.
'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.
A NOVEL ABOUT FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AS PRACTICED IN AFRICA, FOR EASTERN AND MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES.