Bookbot

Randolph Stow

    Randolph Stow fue un narrador con una sensibilidad extraordinaria por el paisaje y su influencia en la psique humana. Sus obras exploran con frecuencia el choque de culturas, la nostalgia por las tierras de origen perdidas y el peso de la historia. Stow entrelazó magistralmente elementos de mito y realidad, creando una atmósfera que arrastraba a los lectores a las profundidades del alma humana y de tierras lejanas. Su estilo distintivo, moldeado tanto por el interior de Australia como por el campo inglés, dejó una marca indeleble en la literatura moderna.

    Käpt'n Mitternacht
    Modern Classics: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
    The Merry-go-round in the Sea
    Tourmaline
    Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
    Visitants
    • Tourmaline

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      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.

      Tourmaline2015
      4,2
    • Modern Classics: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

      • 408 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia begins to disintegrate before his eyes. The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists.

      Modern Classics: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea2008
    • Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      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.

      Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy2004
      4,4