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The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September, 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop". Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'.

Septiembre de 1952. El algodón está casi a punto en los campos de Arkansas. La cosecha empezará pronto. Luke Chandler es un niño de siete años que vive con su familia en una granja sin pintar. En seis semanas, los Chandler y un grupo de jornaleros llegados de la sierra y de México tendrán que recoger todo el algodón, que es su sustento y el garante de su supervivencia en el campo.