Name: La Perla (in Spanish)
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Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9786074536942

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Synopsis "La Perla (in Spanish)"

Esta novela breve narra la historia de Kino y su mujer Juana, ambos indígenas habitantes de un pequeño pueblo costero donde lo más que se puede encontrar son chozas y viejas barcas pesqueras. Sin embargo la gente de allí vive en calma, son felices en su miseria. El problema se presenta cuando un escorpión pica al pequeño Coyotito, hijo de los protagonistas, y éstos se ven obligados a recurrir al único médico de la ciudad, que sin ningún escrúpulo reniega a atenderles sin compensación económica. Desesperados, Kino y Juana recurren al mar en busca de una perla que permita salvar la vida del niño. Para sorpresa de todos, la suerte les sonríe ofreciéndoles la mejor y mayor perla que hayan visto jamás. El interés de La perla reside en el enfrentamiento entre dos mundos: el de los ricos y el de los pobres, y en el proceso de cambio en las relaciones humanas en función de la situación económica de las personas. Esto explica que sea una novela ampliamente usada en la escuela para invitar a la reflexión ética.

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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