Randolph Stow Bücher
Randolph Stow war ein Erzähler mit einem außergewöhnlichen Gespür für Landschaften und deren Einfluss auf die menschliche Psyche. Seine Werke untersuchen häufig das Aufeinandertreffen von Kulturen, die Nostalgie nach verlorenen Heimatländern und die Last der Geschichte. Stow verknüpfte meisterhaft Elemente von Mythos und Realität und schuf eine Atmosphäre, die die Leser in die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele und ferner Länder zog. Sein unverwechselbarer Stil, geprägt sowohl vom australischen Outback als auch von der englischen Landschaft, hinterließ einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck in der modernen Literatur.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
Even though MIDNITE was seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in prison. So it was just as well that in the end he found GOLD! A brilliantly good-humoured and amusing history of the exploits of Captain Midnite and his five good animal friends.
Tourmaline
- 288 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael Random emerges from the desert, desperate townspeople see him as a messiah. Random begins to spread the word of God—and to promise them water, that most precious resource. Both a complex spiritual parable and an enduring apocalyptic vision, Tourmaline is Randolph Stow’s most controversial novel.
