Go Set a Watchman

A new novel from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Informationen zum Autor Harper Lee Klappentext THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS 'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN 'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT 'Warm, sardonic ... wryly funny' SUNDAY TIMES 'Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades' NEW YORK TIMES 'Compelling in its timeliness' WASHINGTON POST 'Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience.' Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - 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 Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird , and set twenty years after Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story. Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

Vorwort
A new novel from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Autorentext

Harper Lee

Klappentext

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.

Zusammenfassung
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. 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.