By the Light of My Father's Smile (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Alice Walker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $14.41

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.28

  A family travels to the remote Mexican Sierras where they embark upon an encounter that will change them more than they could ever imagine. Alice Walker's first novel in six years explores how a woman's denied sexuality can lead to the loss of self - and how that self might be regained.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.28

  By The Light Of My Father's Smile is the story of two sisters, Susannah and Magdalena, seen through the eyes of their dead father, now in the spirit world. Highly contemporary, sexually explicit, disturbing and tough, it explores how love and relationships are distorted by dishonesty and deceit.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $10.86

  'Alice Walker in this, the most beautiful, the most compassionate, the most sensuous of novels, has created a masterpiece. It is one of the most life-enhancing novels you could hope to read. Flawless' Mary Louden, THE TIMES 'All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die ...' A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico - the writer-to--be Susannah; her sister Magdalena; their father and mother. There, amid indigenous people called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they ever could have dreamed. This is a deeply sensual novel that explores the richness of female sexuality as a celebration of life, affirming the belief 'that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that forgives. And that love is both timeless and beyond'.