The Grapes of Wrath
- Auteur: John Steinbeck (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1939
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: De druiven der gramschap
- National Book Award
- Pulitzer Prize
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath recensie, review en informatie
- “A warm-hearted celebration of the persistence of the human spirit.” (Guardian)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1939 van John Steinbeck
“I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.”
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of 
Wrath is Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
John Steinbeck (27 februari 1902, Salinas, Californië – 20 december 1968, New York) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.