Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis 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 withThe 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.
