--- product_id: 203172492 title: "The Color Purple: A Novel" price: "€ 40.98" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/203172492-the-color-purple-a-novel store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # The Color Purple: A Novel **Price:** € 40.98 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Color Purple: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** € 40.98 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/203172492-the-color-purple-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers. An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jesmyn Ward, and more, The Color Purple remains an essential read in conversation with storytellers today. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into a rich and memorable portrayal of Black women—their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, The Color Purple breaks the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, and carries readers on an epic and spirit-affirming journey toward transformation, redemption, and love. “Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones “ The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon Review: A Truly Great Book... - I don't know where to begin with my feelings about this book. I think it would be fair to say that this is one of the few works of literature that will forever change my point of view of the world. I have never thought of myself as being anywhere close to being a feminist. Growing up in a Southern California beach community, what care did I have about all the women who came before me fighting for the right to be counted as a whole human being with thoughts, feelings, and ideas that are just as valid as any mans. As I delved deeper into this book, spanning across several continents, the reality of being "just" a woman and nothing more than whatever the men around us want or demand of us to be, is all we are. I knew before starting The Color Purple, a major theme would be inequality, but other than having sorrow, pity, and disgust toward events that happened well before I was born, how close to home could this book possibly hit? Turns out as close as my own body. I never thought of myself in terms of being a member of society that is oppressed, but as a women, you are born into a group that through out history around the globe has been traded, sold, used, beaten, raped, mutilated, held down, and murdered for no other good reason than what it between your legs. Major religions count women as nothing unless they are married and producing babes. In these same religions, claimed to be given from a loving and all knowing god, we are expendable once the men who think they know god's will can deem us as no longer valuable, clean, or worthy. Whole societies feel that women are good for nothing other than menial and tedious labor. In America things are better than in other parts of the world, but all you have to do is watch the news and see the seething rage that is invoked over women's reproductive rights to see that there is still a long way to go. I would dare any women to read this novel and not be changed. Then there is the other "part" of this book that really spoke to me. At first I wasn't a fan of how shallow and matter of fact the people and events seemed to unfold. But as the chapters progress you being to see the characters aren't shallow and the events did impact them deeper than you saw on the surface. I believe that Alice Walker was trying to show that people are a very deep well that takes time to really draw from. We look at people and something reprehensible or noble that they have done, then we come to conclusions and usually hold that judgement to sum up he or she's whole existence. But the truth is good men can do bad things, bad men can do good things, and everyone if they are willing can learn, change, and grow. I would hope that one day instead of trying to ban this book, high schools would embrace this as work of fiction that can actually improve society... Review: The Color Purple by Alice Walker - A must read for everyone, man, women and teenagers 16years and older. A hard look at the life of a black woman given to a man because she was raped and had children, who were taken from her and given to someone else. She was abused for years and started writing about it, addressing her letters to God in the beginning. Read about her life and rejoice that yours is so much better. A must read! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #5,281 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Epistolary Fiction (Books) #10 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #47 in Censorship & Politics | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 29,156 Reviews | ## Images ![The Color Purple: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/910QrUB9z1L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Truly Great Book... *by A***T on November 3, 2012* I don't know where to begin with my feelings about this book. I think it would be fair to say that this is one of the few works of literature that will forever change my point of view of the world. I have never thought of myself as being anywhere close to being a feminist. Growing up in a Southern California beach community, what care did I have about all the women who came before me fighting for the right to be counted as a whole human being with thoughts, feelings, and ideas that are just as valid as any mans. As I delved deeper into this book, spanning across several continents, the reality of being "just" a woman and nothing more than whatever the men around us want or demand of us to be, is all we are. I knew before starting The Color Purple, a major theme would be inequality, but other than having sorrow, pity, and disgust toward events that happened well before I was born, how close to home could this book possibly hit? Turns out as close as my own body. I never thought of myself in terms of being a member of society that is oppressed, but as a women, you are born into a group that through out history around the globe has been traded, sold, used, beaten, raped, mutilated, held down, and murdered for no other good reason than what it between your legs. Major religions count women as nothing unless they are married and producing babes. In these same religions, claimed to be given from a loving and all knowing god, we are expendable once the men who think they know god's will can deem us as no longer valuable, clean, or worthy. Whole societies feel that women are good for nothing other than menial and tedious labor. In America things are better than in other parts of the world, but all you have to do is watch the news and see the seething rage that is invoked over women's reproductive rights to see that there is still a long way to go. I would dare any women to read this novel and not be changed. Then there is the other "part" of this book that really spoke to me. At first I wasn't a fan of how shallow and matter of fact the people and events seemed to unfold. But as the chapters progress you being to see the characters aren't shallow and the events did impact them deeper than you saw on the surface. I believe that Alice Walker was trying to show that people are a very deep well that takes time to really draw from. We look at people and something reprehensible or noble that they have done, then we come to conclusions and usually hold that judgement to sum up he or she's whole existence. But the truth is good men can do bad things, bad men can do good things, and everyone if they are willing can learn, change, and grow. I would hope that one day instead of trying to ban this book, high schools would embrace this as work of fiction that can actually improve society... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Color Purple by Alice Walker *by P***E on August 14, 2026* A must read for everyone, man, women and teenagers 16years and older. A hard look at the life of a black woman given to a man because she was raped and had children, who were taken from her and given to someone else. She was abused for years and started writing about it, addressing her letters to God in the beginning. Read about her life and rejoice that yours is so much better. A must read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A bildungsroman that everyone should read *by R***D on April 11, 2019* The Color Purple by Alice Walker captures the journey of Celie, a poor black girl, from age fourteen well into adulthood. Rather than chapters, the novel is broken up and written as multiple letters to God. Celie, the main character, writes about her life this way because after her Pa sexually abused her, he said, “You better not tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy,” (1). After two pregnancies at the hand of her father, Celie is married off to a man who degrades and beats her. The novel transitions from letters to God to letters to Celie’s sister Nettie, who joined a family on a missionary in Africa. This shift also reveals a shift in Celie’s mindset, who throughout the novel discovers herself and her religious beliefs. Celie’s life improves as she finds examples in other black women, such as learning to stand up for herself and seeing her own self worth. When I first started reading, I found it difficult, both stylistically and morally. Since the first letters are written when Celie is very young, the sentence fragments are hard to piece together, as seen on page 2 when Celie says, “She ast me bout the first one Whose is it?” However as the novel progresses and Celie ages, the letters are easier to understand and become deeper content wise. Within the first page, there is blunt description of sexual abuse, which reoccurred many times throughout the book. The casual discussion of abuse was hard to get used to, however it succeeded in getting the point across that life for black women in the early 1900s was anything but easy. I liked being able to read a story from a perspective that I have never encountered before. Celie’s progression from hardships to independence and strength was inspiring. I felt that the ending was satisfying, and that I could be happy knowing that Celie found peace in her later life. Alice Walker achieved her goal in inspiring others to carve their own path in life. For example, the novel has two strong female characters who helped teach Celie to be independent. A character named Sophia hit back whenever her husband Harpo hit her. She refused to take a beating from a man, and inspired Celie to stand up for herself. Another character named Shug protected Celie from her abusive husband, which gave Celie the courage to speak up in front of him. At one point Celie describes these women by saying, “You know Shug will fight...She live her life and be herself no matter what,” (253). At the end of the novel, Celie is last seen happy and not being abused by any men. This shows that she took her life into her own hands and made the changes necessary to live a happy life. Although she was born into a poor home and was married off to an abusive man without consent, Celie in the end carved her own path and found strength in others. The novel also shows Celie’s intellectual progression by the syntax becoming more complex towards the end. The reader find Celie contemplating deeper topics rather than just stating the events of her day through fragmented sentences. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Color Purple: A Novel - The Handmaid's Tale - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/203172492-the-color-purple-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.be/products/203172492-the-color-purple-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-10-16*