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Der zeitlose Klassiker jetzt als wunderschön illustrierte Graphic Novel - bereit, um von einer neuen Generation entdeckt zu werden.

Amerika in den 30er Jahren. In die idyllische Südstaaten-Kindheit der achtjährigen Scout und ihres älteren Bruders Jem drängt sich die brutale Wirklichkeit aus Vorurteilen und Rassismus. Scouts Vater Atticus, ein menschenfreundlicher Anwalt, soll den schwarzen Landarbeiter Tom Robinson verteidigen, der angeblich ein wei es Mädchen vergewaltigt hat. Tapfer versuchen Scout und ihr Bruder, das demokratische Gerechtigkeitsempfinden ihres Vaters zu unterstützen, und geraten dabei selbst in gro e Gefahr.

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.