TEHRAN-- A Lesson Before Dying by author Ernest J.
Gaines has been published by Naqshe Jahan in Persian.Originally published in 1993, the book has actually been equated into Persian by Seyyed Reza Ebrahimi.
A Lesson Before Dying is embeded in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s.
Jefferson, a young black guy, is an unwitting party to a liquor shop shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is founded guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
Grant Wiggins, who left his home town for the university, has actually gone back to the plantation school to teach.
As he deals with his choice whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jeffersons godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his knowing and his pride to Jefferson before his death.
In the end, the 2 guys create a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of withstanding and defying expectations.
Gaines brings to this unique the exact same abundant local color, the exact same deep understanding of the human mind, and the very same empathy for individuals and their battle that have notified his previous, extremely praised works of fiction.Ernest James Gaines was also a short story writer and instructor.
Born to a sharecropping household, he was selecting cotton in the fields by age 9 and just went to school five or six months a year.
When he was fifteen, he relocated to California to join his mom and stepfather, because his Louisiana parish had no high school for African Americans.
It remained in California that he began composing.
He went to San Francisco State University, served in the army, and won a composing fellowship at Stanford University.
Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts, and inducted into the French Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier.Photo: Cover of the Persian edition of novelist Ernest J.
Gainess A Lesson Before Dying .
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