在這全美最有名的南方小鎮上,每戶人家的門都不上鎖,鎮上唯一的總機小姐只要聽見聲音就知道打電話的是誰。大家做什麼事都慢慢來,沒什麼好急的,反正也沒哪兒好去,而六歲的思葛?芬鵸和她哥哥杰姆,以及鄰居荻兒最大的樂趣,就是想辦法把躲在隔壁老屋的阿布引出來。阿布自從年少做錯一件荒唐事之後,二十年來不曾再出門。 但是當思葛和杰姆的律師父親答應幫一位黑人辯護以後,他們瞬間成為全鎮的公敵。那些善良而堅信上帝的好人,明知道被告湯姆並沒有強暴白人女孩,卻仍然決定判他有罪…… 《梅岡城故事》藉由六歲小女孩的眼睛,來看形形色色的人性、隱私與哀樂,全書充滿特殊的美國南方風情,慵懶、純真而樂觀,對於人性的不完美與種族歧視雖有著銳利的省思,卻又寬厚包容。1960年出版之後,旋即獲得普立茲文學獎,其影響力至今未曾衰退:它暢銷全世界二十六個國家,光美國一地就銷售三千多萬本。同時它也是美國圖書館重複借閱率最高的書、2001年芝加哥第一屆市民共讀之書、英國青少年最愛的小說之一,更是20世紀最有影響力的「世紀之書」。 ★本書中譯本《梅岡城故事》由遠流出版 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. |