Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .
Джон Эрнст Сте́йнбек — американский прозаик, автор многих известных романов и повестей: «Гроздья гнева», «К востоку от рая», «О мышах и людях», «Зима тревоги нашей» и других; лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе.