Paradise pastures

Good -natured humor and sarcastic satire. Drama and melodrama. Gothic, a parody of Gothic and even a sad fairy tale for adults - it seems, the genre variety of stories collected under the cover of “paradise pastures”, there is simply no end.
This book of Steinbeck, first published in 1932, is possible, in essence,, in fact, To consider a novel only very, very conditionally - in reality, before us is a conceptual collection of stories united by a scene of action - a quiet farmer valley in the California province - and the fate of the stranger Bert Monroe, who was not afraid to buy the land that all the inhabitants of the valley of the valley They consider the “damned.”
years are going on. Life in the valley goes on as usual. And the locals are waiting and waiting, with a burning burning interest - will the curse come true?