This harrowing story of a man lost in his times, bewildered and anguished by both war and love, is a masterful portrayal of the human psyche at odds with itself.
Hugo Charteris Boeken
Hugo Charteris was een Schotse romanschrijver wiens werken zich vaak verdiepen in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en maatschappelijke verwachtingen. Zijn schrijven kenmerkt zich door scherpe observaties van de menselijke natuur en een scherpzinnig inzicht in de psychologie van personages. Charteris verweeft meesterlijk spanning en humor om thema's als liefde, verraad en de zoektocht naar identiteit te verkennen. Zijn romans zijn waardevolle bijdragen aan de literatuur en bieden lezers boeiende en tot nadenken stemmende verhalen.
Pictures on the Wall
- 264bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
Picnic at Porokorro
- 262bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
The Tide Is Right
- 145bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
This remarkable novel, suppressed in 1957 and published by Dalkey Archive for the first time, is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant, aristocratic Scottish family in the 1950s. As the family prepares for its annual Christmas dance, old rivalries and tensions flare as John Harling arrives to visit his sister Mary, who has married Duncan Mackean, next in line to inherit the estate left by Colin Mackean, dead two years now, but very much alive in the memory of the current family, presided over by Alan Mackean and his wife Augustine ("Tin"). By the end of this nerve-racking day, John tells his sister that "this life, which you lead here, is incestuous" and that her husband Duncan "is in love with things he should have left--long ago. Soil, place, family, the past--roots... One must have courage to travel light today." That night, Duncan and Alan go out shooting; only one returns alive.
