To Kill a Mockingbird-杀死一只知更鸟

作者：Lee Harper

书名：To Kill a MockingBird《杀死一只知更鸟》

中文简介：To Kill a Mocking Bird《杀死一只知更鸟》是一部于1960年出版的小说，由美国作家哈珀·李创作，荣获当年度普利策奖。此书刚出版便获得极大成功，取材自作者对其家人与邻居的观察以及发生在作者10岁时（1936年）故乡附近的一起事件。虽然故事题材涉及种族不平等与强暴等严肃议题，其文风仍温暖风趣。《杀死一只知更鸟》是一部南方哥德小说与教育小说，主题涉及种族歧视与滥判无辜。学者指出哈珀·李着墨于阶级、勇气、同理心，以及美国南部诸州性别角色议题。在英语系国家，《杀死一只知更鸟》常被纳入学校教材中，传递宽恕和反偏见的信息。《杀死一只知更鸟》也因其种族歧视性语言而被列为文学挑战性书目（有部分争议性的书籍）。

英文简介：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.