Reviews

• 感動のラストシーンは読み終えたご褒美❣️

  Steinbeckの怒りの葡萄、数十年ぶりに再読。678pの大作ですが力強いストーリーと魅力的な人物描写にグイグイ惹きつけられます。 資本主義が小規模農家を潰していく1930年代のアメリカ。暖かいカリフォルニアなら果樹園で桃や葡萄を摘んで暮らせると夢見て故郷を捨てる人々。 車は有っても電気はまだなく炊事洗濯は幌馬車の時代の様。家族が支え合って暮らす庶民の生活を作家は優しい眼差しできめ細やかに描きます。 カリフォルニアでの厳しい現実は、アメリカでもこんな事が有ったのか！と驚嘆😱 そして衝撃的なラストシーンの深い感動🥲は最後まで読んだご褒美❣️

• Classic American literature that reveals a sad state of Americans during the Dust Bowl years.

  This is a classic tale of poverty-stricken Americans trying to survive and not getting much help for it or even much understanding in the America of that time. You might think that the 1930s were too far back to be relevant to your life now, but it isn't true. The story of simple folk trying to live a simple life, but getting hell from everything and people everywhere is still happening today. The author writes using the English of those people and you may find it annoying to read, but it let's us taste the flavor of those lives. Ordinary people who lose everything until there is no more to lose is a dire tale because, let's face it, the possibility of the same thing happening still exists. America of that period was so focused on economic growth and making money that people didn't matter. Of course it was during the Great Depression, but is that OK? Is it OK to turn your back on others when times are tough? Reading about the Joad family just reinforced my conviction that it is not.

• Timeless classic

  I read this book many (too many) years ago when I was at university. As an engineering student, it opened my eyes to the power of great literature.

• お値打ちなペーパーブック

  大型書店でも取り寄せ不可だった原語の本を注文して3日で読むことができました。 状態も綺麗だったので、気持ちよく読めました。

• Classic for a reason.

  There’s a reason this is a classic. Despite being incredibly bleak in places there is so much beauty inside. I often found myself stopping after some of the passages just to take a breath and savour the words.

• すごい、すばらしい、美しい！

  恥ずかしながら、これほどのみごとな作とは知りませんでした。 ただこのKindle版は、なぜかフォントサイズがころころ変わるので、読みにくいです。

• 配送の早さと新品同様の美品

  新品同様で配送の早さにビックリ。 大満足です、またよろしくお願いします。

• 希望が敗れても人は生きて行かねばならない

  小説の書かれた時代（大恐慌下のアメリカ）と２１世紀の今と比べてみる。 時代はどんどん変わっていくが、支配するものの横暴と支配されるものの苦しみは全く変わらない。より良い生活を求めて他の土地へ夢見て移住を決意する。しかし行ってみた先は前より酷かった。移動する先々で家族や仲間はどんどん死に追いやられていく。 資本主義の世界で生き抜くためにはきれいごとばかりいってはおられない。他者をだましてでも生き抜かねばならない。それが果たして悪といえるのか。スタインベックの小説には人の苦難を描く面が多いが、それでもなお人のタフさ、何気ない人と人の優しいふれあいがちりばめられている。それが単に社会や時代への批判に終わらないこの小説の価値ではないかと思う。 なおこの小説は偶数章と奇数章で作者の語りと物語が交互に著わされていて、単なる時代小説ではないことがすぐにわかる構成になっている。

• Low quality

  Basic Amazon print, the pixels of the cover art are visible because it is just copy pasted......

• Edição maravilhosa com Prefácio e notas do Robert Demmot

  A experiência de leitura nessa edição é demais, começando pela introdução maravilhosa do Robert Demmot, um estudioso da obra de Steinbeck, que também é responsável pelas notas. O prefácio traz a contextualização e os desdobramentos do impacto da obra na história norte-americana, além de uma análise do autor, de suas obras e muitas dicas sobre filmes, documentários, músicas (há uma canção do Bon Dylan para um dos personagens) e até de uma paródia da revista Mad. Robert Demmot também é responsável pelas notas de rodapé, que são bem importantes nessa obra, pois há bastante gíria e o autor utiliza a forma coloquial da fala da região em sua escrita.

• Dark but portrays suffering even as humanity survives

  Wonderfully written even if the writing style may have gone out of vogue today. Fantastic story of human spirit and compassion even in the face of great adversity

• No kicks on Route 66

  In this novel about Oklahoma farmers forced by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression to seek a new life for themselves as migrant laborers in California, John Steinbeck may well have written the Great American Novel. "The Grapes of Wrath" is the story of the Joad family, but it's also the story of a people on the move, a nation in crisis, and humanity in its extremes of greed and goodness. The first quarter of the novel tells of young Tom Joad's homecoming after several years in prison for killing a man in a drunken brawl. Contact with his family has been minimal over the years, and he looks forward to seeing his parents, grandparents, and siblings again - but the house is empty, obviously abandoned, like so many others in this land where a combination of drought and poor agricultural techniques has resulted in failure and foreclosure on countless family farms. Fortunately, Tom learns from a neighbor that his family has gone over to his uncle's place, and he arrives there just in time to join them on their way to California, where they've been told there's plenty of work in the state's lush Central Valley. The second quarter of the novel is the story of the Joads' arduous journey west on Route 66, a trip distinguished by breakdowns, death, and intimations by those who have been there that California may be something less than the paradise they've been led to imagine. The final half of the novel follows the Joads after they arrive in California, only to discover that it's possible to starve even in a land of plenty as too many would-be workers are forced to compete for available jobs by accepting wages barely sufficient to buy enough food from one day to the next. The novel ends with one of the most stunning and affecting scenes you'll ever read, and although nothing at all is resolved, the story feels complete. The structure of the novel underscores Steinbeck's creation of the Joads as the human face of a social crisis. Long chapters that advance the plot alternate with short chapters in which the Joads are never mentioned, in which Steinbeck's richly poetic prose establish the physical and moral setting of his work: the conditions leading to the Dust Bowl, the loss of a way of life, the journey to a new beginning, and the disillusionment and growing anger of the migrants - all on a massive scale. These short, poignant chapters are as beautiful, captivating, and necessary as the story chapters, as they provide context and grant a kind of holy universality to the Joads' experiences. Steinbeck's writing is raw, earthy, and viscerally powerful. This is realism at its finest: full of small, telling details, and at times casually vulgar, not for shock value but because life itself is casually vulgar. I was about 13 the first time I read this novel, and the blunt honesty of the writing was a bit much for my somewhat sheltered mind; I remember feeling uncomfortable when an old man reached into his pants and "contentedly scratched under the testicles," as that wasn't a word I was used to seeing in print, at least outside of biology texts. I loved the background chapters but found the Joad chapters distasteful for the first hundred pages or so, when I finally allowed the vivid immediacy of Steinbeck's style to make the characters real for me. As an adult, I have no such difficulties and am able to appreciate the masterful style and rich characterizations immediately. This is a mature novel, about people too crassly human to elicit our pity, but too warmly human not to elicit our compassion. I must admit that as a native Californian, I feel a special connection with this novel. For most of my life I lived just a few blocks away from the old Route 66 (although farther west than the point where the Joads left it to go north). Several of my husband's children live in the Central Valley, around places Steinbeck mentions by name. However, Steinbeck's skill is such that even if you've never been there, you'll close this novel feeling as though you had. This is a novel every American should read - indeed, everyone interested in what it means to be human in trying times. These days more than ever we need this book, we need this reminder of the values of proud self-sufficiency and fierce decency, for it is when we stop pulling, and pulling together, that we lose our way.

• The Grapes of Wrath is a powerful novel that combines a family saga with sweeping social critique.

  The Grapes of Wrath is a powerful novel that combines a family saga with sweeping social critique. It is a vivid depiction of the 1930's, but it also has a timeless urgency. It has very strong themes around ethics, justice and resilience. The characters are memorable. Steinbeck's style is distinctive. He alternates between intimate plot-driven realism and omniscient chapters. It is a historical document, but has a timeless moral argument that still resonates. Steinbeck’s novel is a moral argument for the ethical responsibilities of community.

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