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Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece - perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature - now in the new Virago Green Spine design.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth.
When, at sixteen, Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams - who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds. Rediscovered and championed by Alice Walker in the 1970s, Hurston's lyrical novel of self-discovery is now acclaimed as one of the greatest American classics of the twentieth century.
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Paperback Published 25 February 2025 256 pages
'Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more' - Zadie Smith