Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl draws its power from a deceptively straightforward premise. When a poor Indian pearl-diver named Kino discovers ‘the Pearl of the world’, he sees in it the promise of a transformed life: a proper marriage to Juana, and a future in which their son Coyotito might go to school. But the pearl does not bring salvation. Instead, consumed by his dreams, Kino grows blind to the greed and violence steadily taking hold in himself and those around him. In setting the values of the civilised world against those of the primitive, Steinbeck finds them both — with quiet, devastating precision — tragically inadequate.
ISBN 13: 9780141394909
Author: John Steinbeck
