"Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York Times
A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience.
Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.
Inhalt: "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 falsely 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 1930s. 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. Systematik: Romane Englisch Umfang: 309 pages Standort: Romane Englisch Lee ISBN: 978-0-09-954948-2
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.
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty 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.
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
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
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty 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.
Inhalt: Alabama in den 1930ern: Maycomb Country verwandelt sich in einen Hexenkessel, als der Schwarze Tom Robinson angeklagt wird, eine weiße Frau vergewaltigt zu haben. Nur Pflichtverteidiger Atticus Finch glaubt an Robinsons Unschuld ... Systematik: Romane Umfang: 458 S. Standort: Romane Lee ISBN: 978-3-499-27157-1
Inhalt: Wenige Romane werden so geliebt wie dieser! 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. Eva Mattes prägt seit ihrem 12. Lebensjahr die deutschsprachige Film- und Theaterlandschaft. Sie arbeitete mit Regisseuren wie Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Zadek und Werner Herzog zusammen und wurde mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen geehrt. Als Jane-Austen-Interpretin feiert sie große Erfolge. Wer ihre ebendige, kluge Stimme einmal gehört hat, vergisst sie nicht wieder. Systematik: Hörbuch Umfang: 10 CDs : 12 h 21 min Standort: Hörbuch [L] CD 23912-23921 ISBN: 978-3-8398-1389-8
Inhalt: Die kleine Scout ist erwachsen geworden. Als Jean Louise kehrt sie aus New York nach Maycomb, Alabama, zurück, doch sie erkennt die Stadt ihrer Kindheit nicht wieder: Selbst ihr geliebter Vater Atticus Finch gibt sich als "Niggerhasser" zu erkennen ... Fortsetzung von "Wer die Nachtigall stört". Systematik: Romane Umfang: 317 S. Standort: Romane Lee ISBN: 978-3-421-04719-9
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