Author: Harper Lee
Translator: Wook-dong Kim
Publisher: Open Books
544 pages | 120*190mm
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About This Book
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at
the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on
them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I
maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my
senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer
Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley
come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the
Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of
8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father,
Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a
young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story
explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a
child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice,
and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time
getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer
before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris,
a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the
hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at
the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding
the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent
white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then
Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout
and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding.
During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty
of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to
overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus
Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's
hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you
really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a
Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations,
and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber
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