On The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Posted by Smarika.
Lately, I have been interested in historical fiction from the viewpoint of the subaltern. Hence I'd bought The Grapes of Wrath earlier this year, and finally got to reading it now.
The book essentially is about the Depression Years in the midwest US after the World War I, spinning a tale about the Joad family, and their migration towards the West in all those lean years. But all this is an objective reading. The greatness of the book arises from the way it weaves a tale which has been called a "true tribute to humanity", and this indeed is what made it deserving of the Nobel.
