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Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

A Novel

by Alice Walker
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/06/2008

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From the author the New York Times Book Review calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence. Possessing the Secret of Joy, out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that Cosmopolitan called "masterful, honorable, and unforgettable storytelling." The New Press is proud to bring the book back into print with a new preface by the author addressing the book's initial reception and the changed attitudes toward female genital mutilation that have come about in part because of this book.
ISBN:
9781595583642
9781595583642
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-06-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
The New Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
286
Dimensions (mm):
208x140x20mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Alice Walker

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including Meridian, By the Light of my Father's Smile and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

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