by Harper Lee · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475303475
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«Matar un ruiseñor» is Harper Lee's coming-of-age novel, published by Ediciones Orbis in hardback (100 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Alabama in the 1930s, the novel follows Jean Louise Finch, who recalls her childhood while her father, the lawyer Atticus, defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. The work portrays racial prejudice, suspicion of difference, and the rigidity of family and neighbourhood ties.
Translation from English by Baldomero Porta; original title, To Kill a Mockingbird. This 1984 edition belongs to the Biblioteca de grandes éxitos collection, volume 13.
Of interest to readers of American narrative classics and coming-of-age novels, as well as book clubs and school settings.
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published on October 21, 2025.
