An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

本书获1960年普利策奖。三十年代，美国大萧条时期南部的一个小镇，三个天真孩子的生活因为两桩冤案而改变。羸弱而失语的人、固守太多偏见的无知的人，还有恪守原则的善良的律师父亲，迫使他们艰难地去理解成人世界里的偏见和冷漠，去理解真相所包含的危机和无奈，同时试着去理解，坏人的 内心也可能无辜。