by Alice Walker · Plaza & Janés. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401324857
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«En posesión del secreto de la alegría» is a contemporary fiction novel by Alice Walker, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
The story centers on Tashi Johnson, a young African woman who decides to undergo female circumcision and then emigrates with her husband to the United States. The physical and emotional consequences of that experience haunt her, as the author alternates different voices to show misogyny, trauma and the search for identity.
The work belongs to the Plaza & Janés Éxitos collection and is the third volume in the The Color Purple Collection series. Original title: «Possessing the Secret of Joy»; translation by Gemma Rovira.
For readers of literary and feminist fiction, especially those who have already read «El color púrpura» and want to continue with Alice Walker.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
