{"product_id":"la-perla-paperback-1","title":"La Perla - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteinbeck's classic cautionary tale, now in an accessible new Spanish-language translation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of Steinbeck's most taught works, \u003ci\u003eThe Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the fall from innocence experienced by people who believe that wealth erases all problems.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, \u003ci\u003eCup of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, \u003ci\u003eThe Pastures of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) and \u003ci\u003eTo a God Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Long Valley\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with \u003ci\u003eTortilla Flat \u003c\/i\u003e(1935), stories about Monterey's paisanos. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: \u003ci\u003eIn Dubious Battle\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), \u003ci\u003eOf Mice and Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. \u003ci\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e (1952) was an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family's history. Later books include\u003ci\u003e Once There Was a War\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003eThe Winter of Our Discontent\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eTravels with Charley in Search of America\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), and \u003ci\u003eAmerica and Americans \u003c\/i\u003e(1966). Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Bernal Granados\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Mexico's foremost writers. His many books of essays, short stories, and aphorisms, include \u003ci\u003eRamparts \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and most recently \u003ci\u003eNotes Toward a Theory of Failure \u003c\/i\u003e(2016). Bernal Granados is the translator of many US modernist and contemporary writers into Spanish, including Guy Davenport, Paul Metcalf, Lydia Davis, Barbara Guest, Ronald Johnson, and William Bronk, among many others. He is the recipient of awards from Mexico's National Fund for Culture and the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mexican Center for Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47333285167353,"sku":"9789706274311","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VjRzZTZVaWdzVWRHZEVQQUJjMkc1Zz09_c23a397a-fc96-4d67-bb0f-e06bd0f3d73b.webp?v=1769635380","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/la-perla-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}