The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

<p>A genuinely mind-expanding book. (Patrick Ness GUARDIAN)<br /><br />She is one of the most gifted writers in her country (Isabel Allende)<br /><br />The Color Purple is a work to stand beside literature for any time and any place. It needs no category other than the fact that it is superb (Rita Mae Brown)<br /><br />The Color Purple is a lush celebration of all that it means to be female, to be a black female and like the best of celebrations, it is an honest one. Alice Walker&apos;s honesty in this book is combative, relentless and redemptive. It is from this honesty that bitterness emerges, and yet the bitterness never blights the encompassing humanity of Walker&apos;s vision.I love that The Color Purple doesn&apos;t try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)<br /><br />The great irony about The Color Purple is that it transcends colour. To do tha