The goalkeeper in the oat field

Translation: Ghalib Halsaed Pages: 310 The Catcher in the Rye A dreamy pink title for a rebellious and angry novel about all the falsehood and deception that humans create, live, and breathe. And Time magazine classified this novel as one of the hundred most important novels published in English in the past century. Although it was published in 1951, it still, until now, sells about a quarter of a million copies annually around the world, and the total number of copies sold so far has exceeded 65 million. In fact, just two months after its release, it was reprinted eight times. This novel is classified as a "Bildungsroman," meaning a novel in which the protagonist moves from a state of confusion and chaos to a state of stability and maturity.