Name: A Perla (in Galician)
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Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9788498654172

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Steinbeck

Publisher

Editorial Galaxia, S.A.

Collection

costa oeste

Language

Galician

Pages

100

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8498654173

ISBN13

9788498654172

Edited in

España

Synopsis "A Perla (in Galician)"

Este libro, que se publicou por primeira vez en 1948, ten hoxe a consideración dun clásico da literatura. Baseada nunha lenda mexicana, conta a historia dunha perla, grande coma un ovo de gaivota, tan fermosa e perfecta como a lúa, que un día cambia dun xeito radical a vida de Kino e da súa familia. Dende entón, o propio Kino, a súa muller Juana e Coyotito, o fillo de ambos, vanse ver afectados pola posesión desta perla. A sorte desta familia humilde é seguida polo lector co dramatismo que Steinbeck lle imprime ao seu relato.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck (1902- 1968) was born in Salinas, California. He studied at Stanford University and during his youth worked as a laborer and fruit picker. His first success was Tortilla Flat (1935), a story between picaresque and romantic about Mexican immigrants settled around Monterey (California). In 1936, he wrote a series of seven reports for The San Francisco News, which he later published as The Harvest Gypsies. In 1939, his most famous work appeared: The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize 1940), which tells the sad story of a family from the impoverished state of Oklahoma that migrates to California during the economic depression of the thirties; this work, received as a moving document of social protest, was adapted into a film by John Ford in 1940. Among his extensive literary work are also the novels Of Mice and Men (1936), The Pearl (1947) and East of Eden (1962), and screenplays for movies, such as the one he wrote for Viva Zapata! by Elia Kazan. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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