Randolph Stow Knihy
Randolph Stow byl vypravěčem s mimořádným citem pro krajinu a její vliv na lidskou psychiku. Jeho díla často zkoumají střet kultur, nostalgii po ztracených domovech a tíhu historie. Stow mistrně proplétal prvky mýtu a reality a vytvářel atmosféru, která čtenáře vtáhla do hlubin lidské duše i vzdálených zemí. Jeho jedinečný styl, ovlivněný jak australskou divočinou, tak anglickým venkovem, zanechal nesmazatelnou stopu v moderní literatuře.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
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 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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.
