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The highly anticipated follow-up novel of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” the US writer Harper Lee is in the book shelves from today. Demand for “Go, place a guard” was huge, some bookstores in New York opened for particularly impatient fans at midnight. In Lee’s hometown in Monroeville, Alabama, where the 89-year-old lives in a nursing home shielded from the public, formed in front of the bookstore a snake. On the bestseller list of online retailer Amazon, the book shot to the top.

The first edition of “Go, set a watchman,” is two million copies. Lee previously only novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960 and considered one of the most influential works of American literature. The story about racism in the US southern states during the thirties was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and was translated into more than 40 languages. Hollywood filmed the novel in 1962 with Gregory Peck in the lead role.

In February, the US publisher HarperCollins had back with the announcement of “Go, set a watchman “taken care of a quake in the literary world. The book plays some 20 years after the initial act of “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The now adult protagonist Scout returns to their home in Alabama, where she meets her father Atticus Finch. Even before the publication provided the information for vortex that this has changed the moral lawyer to racists.

The mid-1950s was completed manuscript was discovered, according to HarperCollins in a locker, the circumstances are unclear. Fears have been raised that the hard of hearing and blind Lee could have been manipulated in order to obtain their consent for the publication of the book. The reviews of “Go thy way, set a watchman” were mixed. The public US radio NPR described the book as a “mess” and complained that the late sequel will change the view of the reader on the masterpiece “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

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