by John Steinbeck · dtv Verlagsgesellschaft · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423107648
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«Tortilla Flat» is the picaresque novel by John Steinbeck, published by dtv Verlagsgesellschaft in paperback (176 pages, in German).
After the First World War, Danny returns to Monterey (California) and discovers he has inherited two houses. His home becomes a refuge for a group of countrymen and hustlers who share wine, friendship and small pranks while living outside social conventions.
The novel, originally published in 1935, received the California Book Award that same year. This German edition appeared in 1987.
For readers of twentieth-century American classics and stories of marginal characters and camaraderie.
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.
