Randolph Stow Libri
Randolph Stow fu un narratore con una straordinaria sensibilità per il paesaggio e la sua influenza sulla psiche umana. Le sue opere esplorano frequentemente lo scontro di culture, la nostalgia per le terre d'origine perdute e il peso della storia. Stow intrecciò magistralmente elementi di mito e realtà, creando un'atmosfera che trascinava i lettori nelle profondità dell'animo umano e di terre lontane. Il suo stile distintivo, plasmato sia dall'entroterra australiano che dalla campagna inglese, ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella letteratura moderna.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
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
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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.
