Classic Australian novel of early colonial life in Australia.
Eleanor Dark Libri
I contributi letterari di Eleanor Dark esplorano principalmente temi contemporanei e narrazioni storiche, approfondendo la complessità delle relazioni umane e delle problematiche sociali del suo tempo. La sua scrittura si distingue per una profonda intuizione psicologica e un acuto occhio osservatore del mondo circostante. Attraverso le sue opere, Dark mirava a catturare le intricatezze della natura umana e le sfide affrontate dalla società. Fu anche una madre devota, la cui vita personale si intrecciava spesso con la sua produzione creativa.
It is 1941 and the storm clouds of war gather over Australia. In the mountains outside Sydney the Massey family are reunited by their father's death. Gilbert is a successful novelist, struggling with a writer's block in middle age. A socialist and intellectual, he shares his political understanding - and fears - with his sister Mary and Marxist brother Nick. But he is locked in an unhappy marriage with a woman of little imagination and obsessive respectability, and their daughters, Prue and Virginia, are as incompatible as their parents. With the bombing of Pearl Harbour was becomes a reality, As gilbert and his family are overtaken by the forces of history they must come to terms with their personal and public failures, and watch as the new generation inevitably mirrors the contradictions and turmoil of the old.
