She was obedient, respectful, cheerful and patient, she could arch her back in child pain with hardly a cry. She was a patient, fragile wife- but Kino often wondered at the iron will in his fragile wife. Juana: Kino´s young wife.She had dark eyes and she was always looking at him when he awakened. His eyes were warm and fierce and bright and his moustache was thin and coarse. He was strong and his black hair hung over his brown forehead. So he had to find a big pearl, a giant pearl. Kino: a young fisherman and pearl diver, very poor, wanted to give his wife and child new clothes, good food, a new house etc. They are, themselves, pearls beyond price. Instead he found that peace and happiness are not to be purchased. With the pearl, he hoped to buy peace and happiness for himself, his wife and their little son. It is the story of a fisherman who found a pearl beyond price, the Pearl of the World. The setting of the story is located in Mexico, near the town La Paz. It´s a story about good luck and bad luck in a poor fisherman´s life. " The Pearl - Steinbeck at the top of his form !" - The New York Times. " The Pearl" is a book to be read many times and be remeberd forever. It is a classic fable, sensitively told, in a beautiful language.
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