--- product_id: 253549888 title: "Go Set a Watchman" price: "SAR 105" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/253549888-go-set-a-watchman store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Set 20 years after iconic classic Deep dive into Southern civil rights era Pulitzer Prize-winning legacy Go Set a Watchman **Price:** SAR 105 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Rediscover a classic’s darker truths — because growth demands courage. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Go Set a Watchman - **How much does it cost?** SAR 105 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/253549888-go-set-a-watchman) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unflinching Social Commentary:** Confronts the nuanced realities of race and identity in the 1950s South. - • **A Bold Sequel to a Timeless Classic:** Explore the complex evolution of beloved characters two decades later. - • **Rich, Evocative Southern Atmosphere:** Immerse yourself in vivid flashbacks and authentic rural life scenes. - • **A Mature, Thought-Provoking Narrative:** Perfect for professionals craving depth beyond black-and-white storytelling. - • **Join the Conversation on Race and Conscience:** Be part of the cultural dialogue that challenges assumptions and sparks reflection. ## Overview Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s landmark follow-up to To Kill a Mockingbird, revisits Scout Finch as a 26-year-old confronting her family and hometown’s complex racial tensions in 1950s Alabama. This #1 New York Times Bestseller offers a mature, nuanced exploration of identity, conscience, and social change, enriching the legacy of an American literary masterpiece with a powerful, thought-provoking narrative. ## Description #1 New York Times Bestseller " Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." -- New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird , Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past--a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision--a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird , but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic. Review: Buenísimo - Un libro que capta tu atención. Genera en ti un sentido de análisis de lo que está a tu alrededor. Review: For grown ups - It seems almost superfluous to write a review of this book as so much has already been written about it but here I go anyway. According to reports this was a novel Harper Lee wrote in the 1950s and couldn't get published. An editor suggested she set it much earlier in the heroine Scout's childhood and make more of the courtroom battle of her father Atticus Finch in his bid to acquit a black man of rape of a white woman. The second book became of course To Kill A Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman is therefore a kind of prequel though it does stand alone and can be read without any knowledge of the later book. Supposedly Harper Lee wanted this book to be rel eased as it was unedited. This has caused some reviewers to refer to it as a rough draft but I don't feel this at all. It is a completed work though with a completely different tone to To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a period piece and the use of the word negro and the references to poor white people throughout as trash was quite jarring to me. In one phrase Lee refers to "the smell of clean negro". Some characters use the n-word. However, such dated language is found in many old books and one just has to accept it as part of the time. The book opens with Scout, now a twenty-six year old woman returning home to Alabama after a stint working in New York. It starts out almost as a love story as she toys with accepting a marriage proposal from a childhood sweetheart. As the book unfolds the plot really turns on her relationship with her father. As a child she worshipped him as a godlike figure but as an adult she becomes aware of his flaws. She becomes horrified to learn that he has racist views like most of his contemporaries. He sees black people like children and doesn't think they are ready to vote, hold professional positions or run their own affairs. This flawed Atticus has been the subject of much furore in the press. The book seems then to be a coming of age novel. Scout sees her father as he really is, not as she thought he was as a child and she sees her home town and its inhabitants as they really are, familiar to her and yet also alien. I felt a strong kinship with the main character as anyone will who has left home and then returned to see their roots differently. She fits and yet she doesn't fit. She is the Watchman of the town, observing it and trying to be its conscience. She is stunned by her father's racism, his opposition to NAACP, his one time attendance at a Klan meeting. As the book develops she manages to reconcile with her father through the advice of her eccentric uncle. There is much to enjoy in this book. The atmosphere of the rural South is caught beautifully and the flashbacks to childhood are exquisite. Scout has a carefree rural childhood, barefoot in the dirt, skinny-dipping in the creek, drinking lemonade and ice cream on endless sultry summer afternoons; truly a childhood we wished we had all had but few of us did. I love books set in the Southern states even though I have never been there. Lovers of To Kill a Mockingbird may not like this book so much. It is not simple, not black and white, not a children's book. Everyone is flawed just as in life. Everything is shades of grey. Life does not have simple solutions and nobody is coming to save the day at the last moment. These are hard truths which few wish to hear but if you are willing to put the schoolroom edicts behind you this is a very adult, very beautiful book. ## Features - Perennial ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #70,560 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #55 in U.S. Literature #136 in Classic Literature & Fiction #414 in Literary Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 6,557 Reviews | ## Images ![Go Set a Watchman - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91YXvPqn5jL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buenísimo *by T***Y on 18 August 2018* Un libro que capta tu atención. Genera en ti un sentido de análisis de lo que está a tu alrededor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For grown ups *by L***N on 27 July 2015* It seems almost superfluous to write a review of this book as so much has already been written about it but here I go anyway. According to reports this was a novel Harper Lee wrote in the 1950s and couldn't get published. An editor suggested she set it much earlier in the heroine Scout's childhood and make more of the courtroom battle of her father Atticus Finch in his bid to acquit a black man of rape of a white woman. The second book became of course To Kill A Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman is therefore a kind of prequel though it does stand alone and can be read without any knowledge of the later book. Supposedly Harper Lee wanted this book to be rel eased as it was unedited. This has caused some reviewers to refer to it as a rough draft but I don't feel this at all. It is a completed work though with a completely different tone to To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a period piece and the use of the word negro and the references to poor white people throughout as trash was quite jarring to me. In one phrase Lee refers to "the smell of clean negro". Some characters use the n-word. However, such dated language is found in many old books and one just has to accept it as part of the time. The book opens with Scout, now a twenty-six year old woman returning home to Alabama after a stint working in New York. It starts out almost as a love story as she toys with accepting a marriage proposal from a childhood sweetheart. As the book unfolds the plot really turns on her relationship with her father. As a child she worshipped him as a godlike figure but as an adult she becomes aware of his flaws. She becomes horrified to learn that he has racist views like most of his contemporaries. He sees black people like children and doesn't think they are ready to vote, hold professional positions or run their own affairs. This flawed Atticus has been the subject of much furore in the press. The book seems then to be a coming of age novel. Scout sees her father as he really is, not as she thought he was as a child and she sees her home town and its inhabitants as they really are, familiar to her and yet also alien. I felt a strong kinship with the main character as anyone will who has left home and then returned to see their roots differently. She fits and yet she doesn't fit. She is the Watchman of the town, observing it and trying to be its conscience. She is stunned by her father's racism, his opposition to NAACP, his one time attendance at a Klan meeting. As the book develops she manages to reconcile with her father through the advice of her eccentric uncle. There is much to enjoy in this book. The atmosphere of the rural South is caught beautifully and the flashbacks to childhood are exquisite. Scout has a carefree rural childhood, barefoot in the dirt, skinny-dipping in the creek, drinking lemonade and ice cream on endless sultry summer afternoons; truly a childhood we wished we had all had but few of us did. I love books set in the Southern states even though I have never been there. Lovers of To Kill a Mockingbird may not like this book so much. It is not simple, not black and white, not a children's book. Everyone is flawed just as in life. Everything is shades of grey. Life does not have simple solutions and nobody is coming to save the day at the last moment. These are hard truths which few wish to hear but if you are willing to put the schoolroom edicts behind you this is a very adult, very beautiful book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Who is the Wathchman *by C***N on 31 July 2015* Great read, takes you back in time to a small southern town struggling with desegregation. They love there life style and feel threatened by change. If you agree with desegregation you will be shunned by your own. Not really any input in this book from the black perspective but an excellent description of southern attitudes of the time. 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