Matar a un ruiseñor

Resumen del libro

Disparad a todos los arrendajos azules que queráis, si podéis acertarles, pero recordad que es un pecado matar a un ruiseñor.
Este es el consejo que da a sus hijos un abogado que está defendiendo al verdadero ruiseñor del clásico de Harper Lee: un hombre de color acusado de violar a una joven blanca. Desde la mirada de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y una honestidad insobornable la actitud irracional que en cuestiones de raza y clase social tenían los adultos del Sur profundo en los años treinta. La conciencia de una ciu-dad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía se enfrenta con la fortaleza y el heroísmo silencioso de un hombre que lucha por la justicia.
'Matar a un ruiseñor', audaz en la creación de una voz ingenua pero perspicaz, tan ocurrente como insolente, es también la novela de la formación de una niña tempera-mental y muy singular, movida por la aspiración de ser mejor y comprender a los otros. Los alegatos de Atticus ante el juez y el jurado, su valor, su aplomo, impregnan el libro, pero la corriente que sacude en todo momento a los lectores la conduce Scout, la chiquilla vestida de cualquier manera, sin coquetería, a la que le gusta leer, saber, escuchar.

Biografía del autor

Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. She also received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.<br><br>The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936 when she was 10. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. It was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She also wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s and published it in July 2015 as a sequel to Mockingbird, but it was later confirmed to be merely her first draft of Mockingbird.