The color is purple

Seeley and Nettie are sisters. Their life in Georgia is not easy - the mother dies, and the stepfather, whom 14-year-old Seely believes to be her own father, commits violence against her and marries her.

Seely is unhappy in her marriage, there is no love in it, only other people's children, and her husband loves someone else. Nettie promises to write to her sister every day, but the letters do not arrive. Time will pass and Cilli will read these letters, which the tyrant husband hid from her. They will discover the terrible truth about her parents and the fate of her only daughter, Olivia, who was taken from her by force.

This novel of pain and passion, for which Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize, tells the story of an indomitable love of life, the courage to be different, human loyalty and devotion that transcends distance and time.