Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

''This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what''s going to happen next'' GUARDIAN

''One of the greatest writers of our time'' TONI MORRISON

''Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture'' MAYA ANGELOU

''There is no novel I love more'' ZADIE SMITH

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.

With a cover design by Harlem renaissance artist, Lois Mailou Jones

• | Author: Zora Neale Hurston
• | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• | Publication Date: Jul 03, 2008
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781844085286
• | ISBN-10: 1844085287