Name: Go set a Watchman
SKU: 47433797
Price: 510.00 TWD
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Author: Harper Lee
ISBN: 9781784755287

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Physical Book

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Harper Lee

Author

Lee Harper

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Random House Uk

Synopsis "Go set a Watchman "

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch â€" "Scout" â€" returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louiseâ€TMs 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 â€" a journey that can be guided only by oneâ€TMs own conscience.

Harper Lee

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Nelle Harper Lee fue una escritora estadounidense, nacida como Nelle Harper Lee en Alabama, cuya obra dejó una huella profunda en la literatura del siglo XX pese a ser breve en cantidad. Creció en el sur de Estados Unidos, un entorno que marcó decisivamente su mirada moral y narrativa. De carácter reservado y poco amiga de la exposición pública, Lee construyó una voz literaria firme, atenta a la injusticia, la infancia y los dilemas éticos de la vida cotidiana, con una prosa clara que esconde una gran complejidad moral.

Su novela Matar a un ruiseñor se convirtió en un clásico inmediato y le valió el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción, consolidándola como una autora central en la literatura estadounidense. La obra aborda el racismo, la empatía y la justicia a través de una mirada infantil que evita el sermón y apuesta por la humanidad. Décadas más tarde se publicó Ve y pon un centinela, escrita con anterioridad, que permitió revisar el universo narrativo de Lee desde otra perspectiva, confirmando la vigencia y tensión de su legado literario.

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Lee Harper

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(Alabama, USA, 1926 - 2016). American writer. In 1931, a racist conflict in the nearby town of Scottsboro shocked American society. Lee, an indirect witness to the events, was inspired by this incident to write her first and only novel known until 2015, To Kill a Mockingbird, now a literary classic. A personal friend of Truman Capote, Lee decided to retire from the public eye when she gained fame. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 2015, the novel Go Set a Watchman was rediscovered, initially rejected by her publishers and one of its subplots is what led to To Kill a Mockingbird.

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