American author Harper Lee is to publish a second novel, 55 years after the release of her US classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," HarperCollins announced on Tuesday.
The novel -- "Go Set a Watchman" -- was written in the mid-1950s and recently rediscovered. It is to be released in July, the publishing house said.
Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- a searing tale of racism in the Great Depression-era South -- in 1961.
The second novel is in many ways a sequel to "Mockingbird" and features many of the same characters around 20 years later, the publishing house said.
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"I hadn't realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it," she said in a statement.
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"This is a remarkable literary event," said Jonathan Burnham, Harper publisher and senior vice president.
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"Reading in many ways like a sequel to Harper Lee's classic novel, it is a compelling and ultimately moving narrative about a father and a daughter's relationship, and the life of a small Alabama town living through the racial tensions of the 1950s."
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