America in the 1930s. Siblings Scout and Jem Finch grow up in a seemingly idyllic world: in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by white mansions and tropical trees. They are raised by their father, Atticus, a compassionate lawyer. But the idyll is deceptive; deep rifts run through the old Southern society: between Black and white, between rich and poor. When Scout's father takes on the defense of a Black farmhand accused of raping a white girl, the eight-year-old learns with astonishment that the world is far more complicated than she had imagined. Bravely, she tries to uphold her father's democratic ideals of justice against all odds, and finds herself in danger...
As relevant as ever: a plea for the equality of all people. The timeless classic about racism and heroism.
About the author:
Harper Lee, born in Monroeville in 1926, studied law at the University of Alabama, moved to New York, and began writing. She was friends with Truman Capote, a childhood friend, whom she assisted with research for *In Cold Blood*. After the worldwide success of her novel *To Kill a Mockingbird*, translated into 40 languages and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, she withdrew from literary life and largely from public life. In 2015, an early manuscript version of *To Kill a Mockingbird*, which had been considered lost for 50 years, was discovered and published. Harper Lee died in 2016 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
Nikolaus Stingl, born in Baden-Baden in 1952, translated works by, among others, William Gaddis, William Gass, Graham Greene, Cormac McCarthy, and Thomas Pynchon. He was awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translator's Prize, the Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart, the Paul Celan Prize, and the Straelen Translator's Prize of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.
