A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment. It was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
In 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of the novel in ten 15-minute episodes as a Woman's Hour serial, with Nadine Marshall as Celie. The script was by Patricia Cumper, and in 2009 the production received the Sony Radio Academy Awards Silver Drama Award.
Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak experienced a profound personal crisis. Plagued by guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about her new maternal role, the acclaimed novelist stopped writing for the first time in her life. As she plummeted into post-partum depression, Shafak looked to the experiences of other prominent female writers—including Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker—for help navigating the conflict between motherhood and artistic creation in a male-dominated society.
English Novel Collection 7 13 Novels For Your Pleasure. Richard Hawke - 2007 - Cold Day in Hell John Connolly - The Black Angel. Elkins Aaron - Unnatural Selection. Palmer Raymond - The Hell Ship. Poppy Z. Brite - Wandering the Borderlands. Karen Chance - Claimed by Shadow. John Connolly - The Unquiet. Hambly Barbara - Winterlands - Dragons Bane. Willows Caitlin - Body Double. Mythology - The Lore Of The Gods, Book 3 - The Egyptian Gods. Mythology - History - Egypt - Egyptian Myth and Legend. Richard Hawke - Speak of the Devil. Lessor Milton - Black Eyes and the Daily Grind. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Bulgaria - Rural and Eco TourismBulgaria has a unique geographical location in the far Southeast corner of Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. The territory of the country is rather small, only 111 000 km but it is situated at the crossroads of three bio-geographic regions. They are the Middle European forest, the Eurasian steppe, and the Mediterranean. This location with the huge variety of different landscapes - Black Sea, wide plains and steppes, and much more. You can enjoy all four seasons, each one with its own character and color. Eco tourism has never been so variable and exciting.
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Tar Baby
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
