Harper Lee – författare

Det är 30-tal i en småstad i den amerikanska Södern, mitt under den stora depressionen. En ung svart man, Tom Robinson, anklagas för våldtäkt på en vit kvinna, och samhället vänder sig mot honom. Maycomb må framstå som en sömnig idyll, men under ytan är staden djupt splittrad av segregation och klassklyftor.

Åttaåriga Scout är dotter till försvarsadvokaten som tilldelas fallet. Hatet som kokar i staden sipprar oundvikligen in i barnens värld. För Scout, som inte kan låta bli att blanda sig i de vuxnas angelägenheter, blir rättegången mot Tom Robinson det första mötet med samhällets orättvisor.

”Att döda en härmtrast” är en av 1900-talets mest älskade och omdiskuterade romaner. Den hör till de amerikanska klassikerna och finner ständigt nya läsare.

Det har blivit femtiotal i småstaden Maycomb i Alabama. Den nu vuxna Jean Louise Finch – eller Scout som hon kallas – återvänder hem från New York för att besöka sin far, Atticus. Scout blir tvungen att brottas med såväl personliga som politiska frågor medan hon försöker förstå sin fars syn på samhället, liksom sina egna känslor inför platsen där hon växte upp.

Ställ ut en väktare är Harper Lees första roman på över femtio år och den andra någonsin som ges ut. Den skrevs innan Dödssynden (To Kill a Mockingbird), men utspelar sig kronologiskt sett efter händelserna i debutboken. Lee trodde själv att manuset hade gått förlorat, tills det återfanns förra året. Ställ ut en väktare är en tankeväckande roman skriven i en turbulent tid, som kastar nytt ljus över en av den moderna litteraturens klassiker.

Voted America''s Best-Loved Novel in PBS''s The Great American Read

Harper Lee''s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

#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.

From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, her bestselling novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman available together in this convenient e-book bundle.

Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and featuring characters that have become indelible in American culture, Harper Lee’s beloved classic of Southern literature, To Kill a Mockingbird and its follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, offer a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s and 1950s that resonates today.

Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novels illuminate the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty, and will be celebrated by generations to come.

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