Ne Tirez Pas Sur L'oiseau Moqueur (Edition Pedagogique), Paperback Book, By: Harper Lee

In a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch is raising his two children, Jem and Scout, on his own. An honest and rigorous lawyer, he is appointed to defend a black man accused of having raped a white woman. This brief summary may explain why this book, published in 1960 - at the heart of the struggle for black civil rights in the United States - was so successful. But how did this novel become a cult book around the world? This is because, while situating his subject in Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee wrote a universal novel about childhood. Told by Scout with a lot of humor, this story is like a tale, the American short story and the initiatory novel. Crowned with the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Don't shoot the Mockingbird has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.