Possessing the Secret of Joy - Hardcover

Walker, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151731527 ISBN 13: 9780151731527

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

Synopsis

A provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.

About this title

About the Author:

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

From AudioFile:

Tashi-Evelyn Johnson, the African heroine of Possessing the Secret of Joy, submits to the ritual female circumcision and spends the rest of her life trying to understand its meaning and live with its consequences. This story, which is told from the different perspectives of Tashi and her family, flows from one character's recollection to another, not always chronologically. Having two exceptional readers, Alice Walker and Joe Morton, helps the listener differentiate between the characters. Both speak in pleasant, well-modulated voices, and Morton is particularly adept in conveying different accents. Enchanting music from an embaire, an African log xylophone, signals the end of each cassette. A.A.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0151731527
• ISBN 13: 9780151731527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286