Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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#1 New York Times Bestseller "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.

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Now in mass market, the previously unpublished novel by Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's earliest known novel. Originally written in the mid-1950s, this was the novel Harper Lee first presented to her publishers. She later went on to write To Kill a Mockingbird and put this novel aside. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014, and is now to be published for the first time in July 2015. Taking place 20 years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman looks at the characters of the world famous novel as they adjust to the turbulent political events of the mid-1950s in America. Jean-Louise Finch (known in her childhood as Scout) is making a visit back to Maycomb, Alabama where she confronts the ghosts of her own past. Meeting up with a former boyfriend still determined to have her hand in marriage, she responds to the town where she was born with a mixture of affection and sadness. Revisiting old friends and family members, and trying to come to terms with her complex feelings about her father, Atticus. Moving, funny and compelling, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating light on the famous To Kill a Mockingbird, and stands as a magnificent novel in its own right. Its publication is an important historic literary event. Harper Lee's great novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird has sold over 40 million copies worldwide since its publication. Its many fans will be fascinated and delighted by this novel.