This book gave me enormous pleasure. It is a gripping story
involving white and aboriginal Australia, sparely told, but with
great dramatic and psychological intensity. Malouf's fine prose
style, his choice of visual detail and his gift for conversation
transport one in a few sentences out of one's own place and time.
The coda of the book, set many years after the main events
described, is very moving. Malouf's sense of the slow workings of
history and his vision of the mysterious darkness that lies at the
heart of things make this book live in the memory long after one
has put it down. Review by VIKRAM SETH, author of An Equal Music.
(Kirkus UK)
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of "The Great World".
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