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"Faint Tappings at the Wrong Window" is a picaresque or 'road'
novel, set in and between Sydney, Adelaide and Nimbin, a small town
in Northern New South Wales that became the centre of the
counter-culture after the Aquarius Festival in 1973. The novel
shows with great humour that the movement in Australia had a
character of its own - almost like its equivalents in Europe and
America but with differences that are uniquely Australian. It also
chronicles the dramatic events of the dismissal of the Whitlam
Government from a wholly new viewpoint. The 'hero' is a man who
cannot find his rightful place in either 'straight' or
'alternative' society but in his travels assumes responsibility for
finding a stray dog a home. The well-rounded characters are
engaging and entertaining, dealing with the many twists and turns
of the plot philosophically (for the most part) and leaving the
reader feeling richer for having known them. The author uses
language that is fresh and lively ... and, being set in Australia,
occasionally coarse ... but also demonstrates great skill in
story-telling. The pace is relentless from start to finish - but
not without spaces to catch one's breath and reconsider the way in
which one looks at the world.
The culture shock between the Anglo-Saxon world and the Muslim
world is examined in this first-person account of a young
Australian woman who accompanies her husband back to his village in
a valley in Jordan. This autobiography--which also functions as a
novel, poetic prose, and travel literature--is a sensitive
exploration of family, expatriation, affiliation, and the
complexities of human relationships. The author tells of her
experiences without falling into the trap of denigration,
stereotypes, idealization, or exotic Orientalism.
"El choque cultural entre el mundo anglosajon y el mundo musulman
se examina en esta narracion en primera persona de una joven
australiana que acompana a su marido de regreso a su pueblo en un
valle del Jordan. Esta autobiografia--que tambien funciona como una
novela, prosa poetica y literatura de viajes--es una exploracion
sensible de la familia, la expatriacion, la afiliacion y las
complejidades de las relaciones humanas. La autora cuenta su
experiencia sin caer en la trampa de la denigracion, el
estereotipo, la idealizacion o el orientalismo exotico."
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