num_pages: 348
description: This Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of the American Book Award tells the story of two sisters - one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South - who sustain their loyality to and trust in each other across time, distance and silence.
language: English
title: The Color Purple
titlecomplete: The Color Purple
characters: Nettie, Miss Millie, Shug Avery, Albert, Celie
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, LGBT, Novels, Queer, Literature, Classics, Feminism, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 653192
places: Georgia
series: The Color Purple Collection
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Townsend Prize for Fiction
publisher: HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH