by John Steinbeck · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330026024
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«The Pearl» is the short novel by John Steinbeck, published by Pan Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Kino, an indigenous diver from Baja California, finds a huge pearl that seems to offer his family a better life. The initial hope turns into greed, suspicion and violence in his community. A brief parable, inspired by a Mexican legend, about ambition and its consequences.
Work originally published in 1947; this Pan Books edition dates from September 1970.
A short, fast-paced novel, common in school curricula, valid as an introduction to Steinbeck's narrative.
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.
