De ratones y hombres

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Spanish language

Published April 16, 2015 by Edhasa.

ISBN:
978-84-350-1863-0
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4 stars (1 review)

"De ratones y hombres" narra la historia de Lennie, un deficiente mental, y su compañero y ángel de la guarda George, dos braceros al borde de la indigencia. Contratados en una granja regentada por un ex boxeador, la insatisfecha esposa del patrón pone en serios aprietos a Lennie, que la mata accidentalmente y huye al bosque. Un conmovedor canto a la amistad y sobre todo una novela intensa con unos diálogos ejemplares y perfectamente construida, de la que ningún lector podrá olvidar su desenlace. Coincidiendo con el centenario de John Steinbeck, hemos publicado con una presentación como se merece el autor esta obra y otras dos "La perla" y "Hubo una vez una guerra".

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Classics should be this short always

4 stars

I picked this up because I'm on a mission to read more of the books other people think you should have read. I hope it improved me in some way, because, spoiler alert, it has a sad end. And you can see it coming for the whole time. And I don't know what the answer is for Lennie and George, but they didn't deserve this.

It's good. It's tense, and anxious, and you're waiting for the other shoe to drop all the way through, and then when it does, you're simultaneously shocked and horrified, but also, not remotely surprised.

It's short, though, so there's that. And next time someone sends me a list of 99 books I should have read by now, I can tick this one off.