Sycamore Row 1
legal thriller
Sycamore Row
Sycamore Row is a legal thriller novel by American author John Grisham published by Doubleday on October 22, 2013.[1] The novel reached the top spot in the US best-seller list.[2] It is preceded by A Time to Kill and followed by A Time for Mercy.
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Sycamore [ˈsɪkəmɔː(r)] <유럽산 단풍나무의 일종>, 특히 美 (미국산) 플라타너스
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Plot
The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi. The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though the full significance becomes clear only in the end of the novel. It is suggested that these sycamores are very old, having been planted by Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers and their stolen, enslaved Africans in what would become the state of Mississippi.
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The story begins three years after the sensational events in the trial of Carl Lee Hailey (A Time to Kill). An employee of wealthy recluse Seth Hubbard is instructed to meet his boss at a location by these sycamores one early Sunday afternoon. The employee finds Mr. Hubbard has hanged himself from the tree because his terminal lung cancer had become too painful. Accompanying the body are very specific funeral and burial instructions.
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recluse [ˈrekluːs] 은둔자; to lead the life of a recluse 은둔자의 삶을 살다
instruct 지시하다, 전하다
terminal 말기의, 불치의
Accompany 동반하다, 함께 가다
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Jake Brigance, Carl Lee's former attorney, had gained much fame after the Hailey trial, as well as the respect of the black community and of many whites, but he has little to no money to show for it. During the Hailey trial, the Ku Klux Klan had tried to intimidate Jake by burning his home. Jake has yet to see any of the insurance money for the burnt house, which is tied up in litigation with his own insurance company.
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litigation 소송[고소] (과정)
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Jake receives a letter sent by Hubbard just before he killed himself, containing a new holographic will that renounces a will he filed the year before in which he leaves all his assets to his daughter and son as well as his grandchildren. In this new will, Hubbard stipulates that his children will receive nothing. Instead, five percent will be given to the local church and another five percent will be left to his long-disappeared brother, Ancil Hubbard. The remaining ninety percent is to be given to his black housekeeper Letitia "Lettie" Lang. Further instructions stipulate that the will must not be filed for probate until after Hubbard's funeral so that his children, who rarely visited him during his bout with cancer, can put on a show not knowing that they will ultimately be left with nothing.
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holographic will 자필 유언 증서: 미국에서는 주에 따라서 증인 없이도 유효한 유언으로 인정된다. holographic 전문 자필의
renounce 포기[단념]하다, 포기를 선언하다; 버리다[그만두다]
stipulate 규정[명기]하다
probate [|proʊbeɪt] (유언장에 대한) 공증; (유언장을) 공증하다
bout [baʊt] 병치레, (병을) 한바탕 앓음
put on a show 치장하다, 가장하다(=pretend)
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Hubbard notes that his children will certainly contest the new will because they are greedy and that Jake must do whatever it takes to make sure the new will is enforced. He says he chose Jake because of the admirable work that Jake did during the Hailey trial.
Soon, Jake finds out that Hubbard had earned more than $20 million in a lumber yard business, a fortune unmatched by any other individual in Ford County. As the executor publishes this sum, the entire town of Clanton shifts their attention to the case.
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contest (결정이나 진술에) 이의를 제기하다
admirable 감탄[존경]스러운
lumber yard business 목재 사업
unmatched (아무도) 필적할 수 없는, 타의 추종을 불허하는
executor [ɪɡˈzekjətə(r)] 유언 집행자
publish (공식적인 내용을) 공표[발표]하다
sum 액수
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원문 출처; 위키미디어;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Row
