《殺死一只知更鳥》

Author： Harper Lee

Publisher： Grand Central

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it， To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film， also a classic.

Compassionate， dramatic， and deeply moving， To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience， kindness and cruelty， love and hatred， humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages， this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

這本小說的背景是美國一個沉睡的南方小鎮(zhèn)，講述了有關(guān)童年及震撼整個童年的良心危機(jī)的故事，于1961年斬獲普利策獎。書中的描寫飽含深情，劇情跌宕起伏，直觸人心，把讀者直接帶入人類行為的根源深處--天真與經(jīng)驗，善良與仁慈，愛與恨，喜悅與痛苦。但是作者哈珀·李卻稱該書不過是一本簡單的愛情小說。今日，它已然成為美國文學(xué)的經(jīng)典著作之一。