The Pearl
Sept 2000 · Penguin UK
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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. Written with haunting simplicty and lyrical simplicity, THE PEARL sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.
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4.3
22 reviews
peter rook
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8 December 2015
It is a fascinating book that makes you linger with the question, is money the root of all evil?
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Glorry Mathonsi
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9 August 2021
This book has that thing that says read me more....
Gustavo dos Santos Lima
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10 July 2024
A terribly vivid depiction of human struggle.
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Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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