the grapes of wrath
The Grapes of Wrath, traducida como Las uvas de la ira, Viñas de ira y Las viñas de la ira, es una novela escrita por John Steinbeck, por la cual recibió el Premio Pulitzer en 1940. Fue una obra muy polémica en el momento de su publicación y resultó profundamente transgresora en su época.
‘To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.’ Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival …Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: ‘I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.’
- Ancho: 11.1 cm
- Alto: 18.1 cm
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/07/2017
- Año de edición: 2017
- ISBN: 9780241980347
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: DK
- Nº de páginas: 544
Este libro ha sido escrito y pretenece a John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
