Quarter Tortilya-Flat. Steinbek J.

A work dedicated to the colorful world of the slum of the California city of Monterie of the 1930s.

The reader will meet very unusual characters, descendants of Indians, Mexicans and Americans. Basically, they are engaged in small theft, illegal scams and often find themselves behind bars. But, despite this, the reader for some reason is sympathetic for them. Rough manners are combined with exalted aspirations, a tendency to hypocrisy turns into touching innocence, and cunning and worship are suddenly replaced by selflessness and selflessness.

Steinbek himself in the preface to the “Tortilya-Flate quarter” so responded about its heroes: “All this are people whom I know and love; People who adapt excellently to the environment. This property of human nature is called a true philosophical attitude to life, and this is a wonderful thing. ”