The Pearl
Author: Steinbeck, John
ISBN: 9780141394688
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 2014
Pages: 128
Format: Hardback
Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition
The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting and lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.
ISBN: 9780141394688
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 2014
Pages: 128
Format: Hardback
Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition
The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting and lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.
