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The Color Purple

In 1984 the known American autor Alce Walker has written an epistolary novel named The Color Purple. It was published by Harcourt Trade Publishers. Next year he received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for it. Later it was adopted for a film and musical of the samo name directed by Stiven Spielberg and starring Whoopi Goldberg as the central character, Celie. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards.

The story is taking place in Georgia and focuses on female African-American life in the 1930s. The central character is Celie, a young woman who is sexually abused by her father (who, she later discovers, is her stepfather) and is forced to marry a widower with several children, who is physically abusive towards her. The book appears in the list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eighteen because of it’s explicit content.