Ruth Park Libri

Ruth Park’s Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the midst of the Great Depression. Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their lifelong odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. Written with warmth and affection, Swords and Crowns and Rings is a powerful story about human nature and the strength of an unlikely love. Ruth Park brilliantly captures the mood of Australia in the first part of the twentieth century.

Combines in one edition four stories featuring one of Australia's most adored children's book characters of all time.

Abby Kirk 14, selfish in Sydney Australia, chases Beatie Bow 11, from park where kids chant her name in game, to 1873. Bows adopt penniless 'Stranger' into typical life of era's working-class. Gran from Orkney foretold 'Stranger' must save family Gift of Prophecy. Abby will only learn power of love for herself, falls for sailor Judah 18, engaged to Dovey.

Ruth Park's classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take you straight back to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.

Abigail is a teenager who doesn’t quite fit in. She’s new in The Rocks, old in her dress sense, and stuck in the middle of her parents’ messy separation. She can’t wait to get away from all of it. When a street game played by the neighbourhood kids conjures up a mysterious girl, Abigail follows her down twisting alleyways to find herself stuck somewhere strangely familiar and yet entirely strange: The Rocks… in 1873.Abigail must first work out where on earth she is, then how she’s going to get home… and if she really wants to.Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Ruth Park’s classic Playing Beatie Bow, follows in the footsteps of her much-lauded version of Park’s The Harp in the South, with all its colour, music, humour and verve.In a rollicking tale filled with mystery, romance and magic, Playing Beatie Bow explores the gift each of us must discover inside ourselves. The past is closer than you think.

Australská spisovatelka Ruth Parková nejen děti dobře zná, ale má pro ně i plné pochopení. Proto také ví, co asi se odehrává v desetileté Lyn Kirkové, když se její rodiče znenadání rozejdou. Lyn se sice přizpůsobí novému životu s maminkou v nádherném věžáku uprostřed staré čtvrti Sydney, s radostí se přehrabuje ve starodávných tretkách maminčina obchůdku Stračí hnízdo, ale proti otci se zatvrdí natolik, že i jméno, jímž ji oslovoval, si změní na čarodějně znějící Abigail. Když pak za čtyři roky rodiče poznají svůj omyl a chtějí se k sobě opět vrátit, nese to jako dvojí zradu. Abigail ze svého prázdného domova často zajde na návštěvu k sousedce a s jejími malými dětmi chodívá na hřiště. Při strašidelné hře na Betsy Bowovou si všimne podivné holčičky, bosé a téměř dohola ostříhané, a ta ji zavede do neuvěřitelného dobrodružství. Najednou se ocitá v 70. letech předminulého století.

Voller Sehnsucht denken die Schwestern Erika und Siw an die kleine Insel im Pazifik, auf der sie geboren sind. Doch als die beiden dorthin zurückkehren, müssen sie erkennen, dass ihr Inselparadies bedroht ist. Die geheimnisvolle Geschichte zweier Mädchen vor dem exotischen Hintergrund Polynesiens mit seinen Mythen. Und ein bewegender Roman über die Folgen der Umweltzerstörung.