A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.«Убить пересмешника» — роман-бестселлер американской писательницы Харпер Ли.История маленького сонного городка на юге Америки, поведанная маленькой девочкой.История ее брата Джима, друга Дилла и ее отца - честного, принципиального адвоката Аттикуса Финча, одного из последних и лучших представителей старой "южной аристократии".История судебного процесса по делу чернокожего парня, обвиненного в насилии над белой девушкой.Но прежде всего - история переломной эпохи, когда ксенофобия, расизм, нетерпимость и ханжество, присущие американскому югу, постепенно уходят в прошлое."Ветер перемен" только-только повеял над Америкой. Что он принесет?..Книга на английском языке.
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.Ubit peresmeshnika roman-bestseller amerikanskoy pisatelnitsy KHarper Li.Istoriya malenkogo sonnogo gorodka na yuge Ameriki, povedannaya malenkoy devochkoy.Istoriya ee brata Dzhima, druga Dilla i ee ottsa - chestnogo, printsipialnogo advokata Attikusa Fincha, odnogo iz poslednikh i luchshikh predstaviteley staroy "yuzhnoy aristokratii".Istoriya sudebnogo protsessa po delu chernokozhego parnya, obvinennogo v nasilii nad beloy devushkoy.No prezhde vsego - istoriya perelomnoy epokhi, kogda ksenofobiya, rasizm, neterpimost i khanzhestvo, prisushchie amerikanskomu yugu, postepenno ukhodyat v proshloe."Veter peremen" tolko-tolko poveyal nad Amerikoy. CHto on prineset?..Kniga na angliyskom yazyke.
