The Pearl
$21.00
Best Sellers Rank: 171166 in Books
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0141394684
Language : English
Publisher : PENGUIN UK
Publication Date : Date not found
Pages : 128
THE PEARL is Steinbeck''s flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds ''the Pearl of the world'' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Haunting and lyrical, THE PEARL sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.