Pobby en Dingan
by:
Tinke Davids (author)
Ben Rice (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789053339701 (9053339701)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Prometheus
Pages no: 103
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Teaching,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Australia
“Pobby and Dingan aren’t dead. They never existed. Things that never existed can’t be dead.” However, things that never existed can disappear and this is the basis of Ben Rice’s first novel. A London native, Rice sets his novel in a fictionalized version of the real life opal mining town of Lighteni...
I just couldn't relate to it, though I know that behind (finding) a child's imaginary friends there's an entire life philosophy - if it's hard to see smth, it doesn't mean that thing doesn't exist or if you don't find smth it doesn't mean you should stop looking for it. OK, so the story is simple, i...