The Great World: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Malouf, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679401768 ISBN 13 : 9780679401766

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Malouf David

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'An example of how fiction may still be individual, honest and humanly truthful. Malouf's great talent is precisely for unmasking the epic or world-historical - for finding the human backing to history's all reflecting mirror.' The Times

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In The Great World David Malouf gives a voice to that experience, ranging over seventy years of Australian life.

'Lucid and accessible. His most ambitious book so far.' Guardian

'A truthful portait of Australia.' Independent on Sunday

'A book of great stature with moral force and moral truth.' Times Literary Supplement

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself.
 
“The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters, this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epic—despite having some of that form's easy pleasures—and render it poetic.”—The New Yorker

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679401768
• ISBN 13: 9780679401766
• Reliure: Relié