Peter Carey Boeken

Vaak krijgt een bepaalde bevolkingsgroep - joden, kleurlingen, allochtonen - de schuld van alles wat er mis is in de maatschappij. Volgens deze volstrekt arbitraire methode zou deze keuze evengoed op dikke mensen kunnen vallen. Dus waarom zou er niet ooit een revolutionaire groepering de macht grijpen en vervolgens beweren dat we in een aards paradijs zouden leven als er maar geen dikke mensen meer bestonden? In het titelverhaal van deze bundel beschrijft Peter Carey wat er gebeurt als een groep dikke mensen in deze situatie probeert een contrarevolutie op touw te zetten. De verhalen van Carey zijn allegorieën waarin, als in een droom, iets vreemd en dreigends op volstrekt verklaarbare wijze de macht heeft overgenomen. In de verhalen worden ogenschijnlijk bizarre voorvallen door Carey zo overtuigend beschreven dat ze op de alledaagse werkelijkheid lijken.

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories.

Told in the form of a journal justifying Ned Kelly to the daughter he would never meet, this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of the most popular novelists at work today.

Forget the limpid, dreamlike views we saw on the television during the Olympics, the paradise of hedonism represented by Bondi Beach and the rest; Sydney is a savage city, as violent in its setting and its weather as it is in its history. This is a brief and heartfelt account of an expatriate writer revisiting his past, examining as he does so the paradox of a blessed country with a bloody, accursed past. Above all, this book is about Australian mateship, and it is the biographies, jokes and stories of Peter's friends and contemporaries that provide the backbone.

In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character--espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.

Tristan Smith, a malformed yet determined hero, navigates complex political intrigues while achieving fame in a peculiar Sirkus that blends elements of a passion play and Mortal Kombat. The narrative explores themes of ambition and the human condition through Tristan's journey, showcasing the author's signature blend of rich storytelling and unique character development.

Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.

En skør og grum historie om medlemmerne af et australsk familieforetagende. Lag på lag skrælles af, indtil det bliver fortællingen om en families bristede forhåbninger, drømme, kærlighed, incest og spirende vanvid.

Sarah Wode-Douglas, an English noblewoman, travels from London to Kuala Lumpur to follow a friend. There, she encounters a strange and forgotten poet whose secret captivates her.

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.