Novella · 1947
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novella · 1947 · American · Modern
The Pearl
A pearl diver finds a fortune and loses everything it was meant to buy.
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A folk parable told with the flatness of scripture — the songs Kino hears do the moral work that a narrator would ruin.
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