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Thirty years after denouncing the racial and sexual oppression of Black American women, she published \u003cem\u003e*Breaking the Silence*\u003c\/em\u003e , in which she movingly describes her impressions gained during trips to the thresholds of hell: to Rwanda and the Congo in 2006, invited by the organization Women for Women International to meet with survivors of the genocide that occurred in those countries; and, in 2009, at the initiative of the pacifist group CODEPINK, to Palestine and Israel. In these regions ravaged by political conflicts and insane wars, she collected stories of ordinary people, men and women whose peaceful daily lives were shattered by bloodshed, thus confronting the unspeakable, the unspeakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBack in the United States, Alice sought a way to tell these stories so that others could nurture their critical thinking about the \"information\" disseminated by the media—or, even better, they could access this knowledge and, perhaps, change their attitude toward the world by adopting a pacifist and humanitarian bias. But how to speak about the unspeakable? What words to choose? How to swallow the tears we would cry with our suffering brothers and sisters so they don't drown out our inspiration? Faced with what cannot be said, all we have left is poetry. 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Brutalized since childhood, the young woman was raped by her stepfather and forced to marry Albert, a violent widower and father of four who viewed his wife as a servant and made physical and mental suffering his daily routine. The novel, written in the form of letters, won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award and inspired the cinematic masterpiece of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg and the acclaimed Broadway musical, adapted for the screen in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Temple of My Kindred\u003c\/em\u003e , defined by the author herself as \"a novel of the last 500,000 years,\" interweaves past and present in a complex tapestry of stories, exploring, with touches of magical realism, the themes of colonialism, oppression, and spiritual recovery. In this story, we meet Lissie, a woman of many lives; Zedé, a Latin American teacher convicted of supporting her country's revolution, but who flees to San Francisco after giving birth to her daughter, Carlotta; Arveyda, the great musician with whom Carlotta shares a strong connection, both immigrants; Suwelo, a historian, and his ex-wife, Fanny, who falls in love with spirits and seeks her own liberation. Orbiting these characters are Fanny's grandmothers: Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Secret of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e , Alice Walker further demonstrates the power of fiction to fascinate and reveal to us all a little of the mystery of resistance and happiness in the face of oppression and anguish. In the work, the desire to honor her traditions leads Tashi—who initially appears in \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e , representing the fictional African Olinka people—to seek out genital mutilation. This courageous choice, however, reveals the beginning of a painful physical and psychological process that will involve all those touched by her journey. The tortuous paths of Tashi's mind will lead the characters and their readers through a representative battle to the origin myth of women's oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “I picked up the book [ \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e ] and read it in one day when it came out. And then the next day I went back and bought every copy they had.” – Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e“The Color Purple is a stunning celebration of all that it means to be a Black woman […]. I love that The Color Purple doesn’t try to soften its blows and yet is still encouraging enough to maintain a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, forgiveness, kindness, and hope.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “With writing committed to the Black feminist project, \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e shows why it is a classic.” – Carla Akotirene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “ \u003cem\u003eThe Secret of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e […] focuses on one of the most debated and shocking issues in feminism, and places this book among Alice Walker’s most powerful works.” – \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “[ \u003cem\u003eThe Temple of My Kindred\u003c\/em\u003e is] brilliant […]. 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