The Hares were Australians who kept their links with Home as a
vindication of their Class. They never expected to have a child who
was not quite normal. And they never gave her the love she craved.
And so- when she was old and alone, in the great crumbling palace
of Zanadu, all she inherited was her feeling for the place, and a
nearness to the wild creatures and the growing things, and her
search for the vision- the riders in the chariot. She thought she
had found one in a lonely Jewish refugee, scarred by what he had
lived through- who becomes a symbol of the Christ story and dies as
a result of a crucifixion....Another was a warm-hearted woman who
is the sole wholly normal person in the book, who takes in washing,
copes with a drunken husband and raises her six daughters in a
hovel.... And then there is an "abo"- a black man, depraved,
diseased, destroyed by the people he came in contact with - a
pervert, a prostitute, etc. He too saw the vision- and painted his
Christ and his Chariot and died in a lodging house of
tuberculosis...These four symbolic figures grope, at times touch
good, at times evil- but never arrive. And around them surge the
waves of hate and love and good and evil. The setting though
Australia as in The Tree of Man and Voss has none of the earthly
regional quality. This book is an allegory, which will mean
different things to different readers. At times the rhythmic flow
of the prose has a touch of Dylan Thomas' poetry- and like that is
often confused, abstruse, difficult. Certainly not everyone's meat.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.
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