An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
Un histórico evento literario: la publicación de una novela recién descubierta, los primeros trabajos de Harper Lee, la amada autora del best seller ganador del Premio Pulitzer clásico, Matar un ruiseñor. Originalmente fue escrito a mediados de la década de 1950, esta fue la novela que Harper Lee presentó por primera vez a sus editores antes de Matar un ruiseñor. Asumiendo que se había perdido, el manuscrito fue descubierto a finales de 2014. Este libro ofrece muchos de los personajes de Matar un ruiseñor unos veinte años más tarde. Al regresar a su hogar en Maycomb para visitar a su padre, Jean Louise Finch —Scout-— lucha con problemas personales y políticos, que involucran a Atticus, la sociedad y al pequeño pueblo de Alabama, que la crió. Al explorar cómo los personajes de Matar un ruiseñor se están adaptando a los turbulentos acontecimientos que transforman a Estados Unidos a mediados de 1950, este libro proyecta una nueva y fascinante luz sobre el clásico de Harper Lee. Conmovedor, divertido y convincente, se erige como una magnífica novela por sí sola.
Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. An instant classic.
Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la década de 1930. Uno de los clásicos más queridos de todos los tiempos, Matar un ruiseñor ha ganado muchas distinciones desde su publicación original en 1960.
Harper Lee beschwört den Zauber und die Poesie einer Kindheit im tiefen Süden der Vereinigten Staaten: Die Geschwister Scout und Jem wachsen im Alabama der 1930er Jahre auf. Jäh bricht die Wirklichkeit in ihre behütete Welt ein, als ihr Vater, der Anwalt Atticus Finch, einen wegen Vergewaltigung angeklagten Schwarzen verteidigt. Finch lehrt seine Kinder Verständnis und Toleranz, allen Anfeindungen und Angriffen ihrer 'ehrbaren' Mitbürger zum Trotz.
Unvergessliche Figuren, menschliche Güte und leiser Humor zeichnen den Roman aus, der in mehr als 40 Sprachen übersetzt wurde und die Herzen von Generation um Generation neu erobert.
Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south, and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook.
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father-a crusading local lawyer-risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition. Out now as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sissy Spacek.
