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 Libri
Hugo Charteris è stato un romanziere scozzese le cui opere approfondiscono spesso le complessità delle relazioni umane e delle aspettative sociali. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da acute osservazioni della natura umana e da una profonda intuizione della psicologia dei personaggi. Charteris intreccia magistralmente tensione e arguzia per esplorare temi come l'amore, il tradimento e la ricerca dell'identità. I suoi romanzi rappresentano preziosi contributi alla letteratura, offrendo ai lettori narrazioni avvincenti e stimolanti.
Pictures on the Wall
- 264pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
Picnic at Porokorro
- 262pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
The Tide Is Right
- 145pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
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.
