Tag: Australian-literature • BookLikes

review 2018-02-24 11:00

An Australian in Search of Understanding: The Tree of Man by Patrick White

As I found out after reading, this is one of the most famous and most widely-read novels of the first Australian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although critically acclaimed abroad it wasn't much of a success in Australia when it first came out in 1955.

It's the slow-paced life story of a good though rather taciturn farmer and his family in the stunning nature of New South Wales in the first half of the twentieth century. Things change all around, the children go their own ways and relations between husband and wife are characterised by affection and habit.

For more be invited to click here and read my long review on my book blog Edith's Miscellany or its duplicate on Read the Nobels!

Source: edith-lagraziana.blogspot.com

review 2016-03-26 11:00

A Town LIke Alice by Nevil Shute

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Here's an Australian novel by the very popular English-born author Nevil Shute, a classic first published in 1950 and never out of print since.

A Town Like Alice is the story of a young Englishwoman who inherits the small estate of an old uncle whom she hardly knew, even though in trust until her thirty-fifth birthday. When she receives her first cheque, she travels to Malaysia to build a well for the women of a village who showed hospitality, mercy and courage during World War II and thus saved her life and that of several other English women and children. There she learns that the Australian stockman who risked his life to give them food survived the torturous punishment of the Japanese occupying power. She liked him then and decides to search him in Australia beginning in Alice Springs...

I wrote a long review of the novel on my main book blog which you can find following the link to Edith's Miscellany.

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

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Source: edith-lagraziana.blogspot.com