The Temple of My Familiar

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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453223994

<DIV><DIV><b>In Walker&rsquo;s follow-up to </b><b><i>The Color Purple</i></b><b>,</b><b> webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history </b>&#160;<BR><BR>In<i> The Temple of My Familiar</i>, Celie and Shug from <i>The Color Purple</i> subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie&rsquo;s own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives. &#160;<BR><BR>As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience.<BR><BR>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div></div>