INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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
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
Gainess A Lesson Before Dying
