Chloe Hooper es una autora australiana reconocida por su incisivo examen de complejas cuestiones sociales y éticas. Su obra literaria profundiza en las intrincadas complejidades de la naturaleza humana y las estructuras sociales. A través de narrativas cautivadoras y temas meticulosamente investigados, Hooper invita a los lectores a contemplar profundas cuestiones de justicia y humanidad. Su habilidad para fusionar el rigor periodístico con la profundidad literaria la establece como una voz significativa en la literatura contemporánea.
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn't know
TWO PEOPLE. HOW MANY LIES? A WOMAN AND A MAN DRIVE AT DUSK TO A RURAL MANSION FOR A FINAL WEEKEND TOGETHER. IT'S ALL BEEN A GAME. BOTH PLAYERS UNDERSTOOD THE RULES. OR SO THE WOMAN THINKS. AT THE HOUSE, A NEW GAME BEGINS. A TRAP HAS BEEN SET. BUT HOW AND WHY? AND FOR WHOM?
Tasmanian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted fourth grader, Lucien. Her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true-crime story about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress in a nearby town. Kate herself has become so obsessed with the murder and so convinced that the published account has it all wrong that she sets about writing her own version -- this one for children, narrated by Australian animals. Though Lucien's father brings Kate to life sexually in encounters of escalating eroticism, he cannot dull her obsession. Fixated on the crime of passion, Kate is becoming less and less aware of the present and of how her behavior may align her fate with that of the dead girl. Chloe Hooper chillingly captures this young woman's unraveling in an intense, witty, superbly crafted novel.
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house. This is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Chris Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. Above all, The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.
Am 19. November 2004 wird auf Palm Island der Aborigine Cameron Doomadgee festgenommen, weil er angeblich einen Polizisten beschimpft hat. Vierzig Minuten später liegt er tot in seiner Zelle. Laut Polizeiangaben war er über eine Stufe gestolpert – doch sein Leichnam weist schwere innere Verletzungen auf. Als Hauptverdächtiger gilt der groß gewachsene, charismatische Polizeibeamte Christopher Hurley. Seit Jahren schon arbeitet er auf Palm Island, einem der gefährlichsten Orte Australiens, und auch die Aborigines schätzen ihn. Nun aber muss er sich als erster Polizist des Landes für einen Todesfall in Polizeigewahrsam vor Gericht verantworten ... Chloe Hoopers Tatsachenroman schildert einen unbarmherzigen Kampf um Macht und Gerechtigkeit. Und damit auch das brutale Aufeinanderprallen zweier Kulturen. Aber die Geister der Vergangenheit lassen sich nicht einfach begraben. Denn der große Mann, der in Camerons Tod verwickelt war, ist in der Mythologie der Aborigines ein Wesen, das viele Formen annimmt, um Angst und Schrecken zu verbreiten.