by John Grisham · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804505280
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«La casa dipinta» is John Grisham's novel, published by Oscar Mondadori in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
Set in rural Arkansas in 1952, the novel follows Luke Chandler, a seven-year-old boy who lives with his family in a house next to a cotton field. Every harvest season Mexican labourers and people from the hills arrive, and that year Luke is caught between racial tensions, a forbidden relationship and a murder that force him to grow up.
Work originally published in 2001 as «A Painted House»; the Italian-language edition was published in 2002.
Of interest to readers of historical fiction and to those who want to discover John Grisham outside the legal thriller.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
