To kill a mockingbird

English language

Published 2004

ISBN:
978-0-09-949689-2
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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Writing through the young eyes of Finch's children Scout and Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality …

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En la sombra clara de la infancia y la justicia

Al leer To Kill a Mockingbird, de Harper Lee, pensé en cómo algunas novelas pueden hablar con voz serena de asuntos profundamente dolorosos. La historia está narrada por Scout Finch, una niña que crece en Maycomb, Alabama, durante los años treinta, junto a su hermano Jem y bajo la guía de su padre, Atticus Finch. Desde mi lectura, la aparente sencillez de su mirada infantil vuelve más evidente la dureza del racismo, la desigualdad y los prejuicios que ordenan la vida del pueblo.

El centro moral de la obra aparece cuando Atticus, abogado respetado y padre paciente, acepta defender a Tom Robinson, un hombre negro acusado falsamente de violar a una joven blanca. Yo sentí una mezcla de admiración e impotencia al ver cómo la verdad, aunque clara, queda debilitada por una comunidad que prefiere sostener sus miedos antes que reconocer la inocencia. El juicio no solo expone una …

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