by John Steinbeck · Ediciones El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669468
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«Las uvas de la ira» is the novel by John Steinbeck, published by Ediciones El País in hardback (651 pages, in Spanish).
During the Great Depression, drought and crisis force the Joad family to leave Oklahoma and travel to California in search of work and a better life. Along the way they suffer exploitation, violence and injustice, and the novel portrays their struggle to preserve dignity in the face of adversity.
2002 edition from the 20th Century Classics collection (no. 26), with a translation by María Coy of the original The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The work won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
For readers interested in classics of American literature and novels with a social and historical background.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
