Randolph Stow Boeken
Randolph Stow was een verhalenverteller met een buitengewoon gevoel voor landschap en de invloed daarvan op de menselijke psyche. Zijn werken onderzoeken vaak de botsing van culturen, de nostalgie naar verloren thuislanden en de last van de geschiedenis. Stow verweefde meesterlijk elementen van mythe en realiteit, waardoor een sfeer ontstond die lezers trok naar de diepten van de menselijke ziel en verre landen. Zijn kenmerkende stijl, gevormd door zowel de Australische outback als het Engelse platteland, liet een onuitwisbare indruk achter op de moderne literatuur.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
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
- 288bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
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.
