Go Set a Watchman

THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS 'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN 'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT 'Warm, sardonic ... wryly funny' SUNDAY TIMES 'Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades' NEW YORK TIMES 'Compelling in its timeliness' WASHINGTON POST ‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’ Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird , and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.

THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS 'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN 'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT 'Warm, sardonic ... wryly funny' SUNDAY TIMES 'Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades' NEW YORK TIMES 'Compelling in its timeliness' WASHINGTON POST ‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’ Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird , and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.

An historic literary event-the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

I "Go Set a Watchman" vender den 26-årige Jean Louise Finch - også kaldet 'Scout' - hjem til sin fødeby, den lille by Maycomb i Alabama, for at besøge sin aldrende far, Atticus. I en tid fuld af racestridigheder og politisk tumult i Sydstaterne, bliver Scouts hjemvenden en bittersød oplevelse, da hun er tvunget til at revurdere alt hun ved om den lille by, dens indbyggere og sine egne følelser omkring det sted hun er født og opvokset. Den nu voksne Scout må kæmpe med politiske såvel som personlige problemer, mens hun forsøger at forstå sin fars holdning til samfundet. "Go Set a Watchman" er den smukke, uforglemmelige og længeventede fortsættelse til Harper Lees ikoniske amerikanske roman "To Kill a Mockingbird".

I "Go Set a Watchman" vender den 26-årige Jean Louise Finch - også kaldet 'Scout' - hjem til sin fødeby, den lille by Maycomb i Alabama, for at besøge sin aldrende far, Atticus. I en tid fuld af racestridigheder og politisk tumult i Sydstaterne, bliver Scouts hjemvenden en bittersød oplevelse, da hun er tvunget til at revurdere alt hun ved om den lille by, dens indbyggere og sine egne følelser omkring det sted hun er født og opvokset. Den nu voksne Scout må kæmpe med politiske såvel som personlige problemer, mens hun forsøger at forstå sin fars holdning til samfundet. "Go Set a Watchman" er den smukke, uforglemmelige og længeventede fortsættelse til Harper Lees ikoniske amerikanske roman "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Scout returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past a journey that can only be guided by one s own conscience.

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Scout returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past a journey that can only be guided by one s own conscience.