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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 55 (1962)

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John Steinbeck じょん・すたいんべっく Winner

A novel about a family moving west in the American Depression era, where poverty, migration, solidarity, and loss unfold together. It looks beyond individual suffering to the dignity people try to preserve under social pressure.

A family’s forced journey becomes a portrait of American hardship and hope.

the Great Depressionmigrationfamilysocial injustice