by John Steinbeck · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402069900
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«La perla» is a short novel by John Steinbeck, published by Bruguera in hardcover (157 pages, in Spanish).
Kino, a modest fisherman, finds a pearl of enormous value after a scorpion stings his son. The discovery awakens greed in his surroundings and drags the family into a conflict with ambition and violence. The story explores innocence, misery, and inequality in a coastal community.
Volume 12 of the Club Bruguera collection, with a translation by Francisco Baldiz of the English original «The Pearl».
Being a short novel, it has been widely used in schools to invite ethical reflection.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
