Favel Parrett Boeken

Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. 'If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this' Sunday Times 'I loved Past the Shallows' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Everyone loves Harry. Except his father. Joe, Miles and Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers' lives are shaped by their father's moods - like the ocean he fishes, he is wild and unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret. Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can't be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs and cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, and a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother's love are not enough.

"Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. His hat is in the gutter. His anger slaps Eva, but his hate will change everything, as war forces so many lives into small, brown suitcases... Prague, 1980: No one sees Ludék. A young boy can slip right under the heavy blanket that covers this city - the fear cannot touch him. Ludék is free. And he sees everything. The world can do what it likes. The world can go to hell for all he cares because Babi is waiting for him in the warm flat. His whole world... Melbourne, 1980: Malá Liška's grandma holds her hand as they climb the stairs to their third floor flat. Inside, the smell of warm pipe tobacco and homemade cakes. Here, Mana and Bill have made a life for themselves and their granddaughter. A life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind."--Publisher description

Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything. Then, one morning, Isla sees a red ship. That colour lights her day. And when a sailor from the ship befriends her mother, he shares his stories with them all - of Antarctica, his home in Denmark and life onboard. Like the snow white petrels that survive in the harshest coldest place, this lonely girl at the bottom of the world will learn that it is possible to go anywhere, be anything. But she will also find out that it is just as easy to lose it all

„Draußen, jenseits der Untiefen, jenseits der sandbödigen Buchten, kommt das dunkle Wasser - schwarz, kalt und tosend...“ Die Brüder Joe, Miles und Harry wachsen an der tasmanischen Küste auf. Ihr Leben ist geprägt vom Meer: vom Muscheltauchen, von den Gezeiten, vom unendlichen Glücksgefühl beim Ritt durch die Wellen. Nur der kleine Harry fürchtet die See und sammelt lieber Meeresschätze am Strand. Fürchten müssen die Jungen auch den Vater, der - ähnlich dem Meer - wild und unberechenbar ist. Keiner durchschaut den verbitterten Mann, den ein dunkles Geheimnis umgibt. Miles sorgt liebevoll für seinen jüngeren Bruder und versucht ihm Geborgenheit zu geben. Aber am Ende reichen brüderliche Fürsorge und Strandschätze nicht aus... Eine unvergessliche Geschichte über das Meer, Geschwisterliebe und die Zerbrechlichkeit junger Menschen.