Kenneth Mackenzie Livres

In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private path across a burnt, untidy field, overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped, dusty and melancholy...In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and pulsed like a child in the womb, ready to be born. Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins. Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim, The Young Desire It is a stunning debut novel about coming of age: an intimate and lyrical account of first love, and a rich evocation of rural Western Australia. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is now back in print for the first time in years with a new introduction by David Malouf.

Wenn man dem großgewachsenen sommersprossigen Teenager Kenny mit den langen möhrenroten Dreadlocks und den tätowierten Schlangen um sein linkes Handgelenk begegnet, glaubt man nicht, dass er seit über 350 Jahren auf dieser Erde wandelt. Erlebt man ihn bei einem Ritual im Steinkreis Callanish, eingehüllt in seine schwarze Robe, die Augen rot leuchtend, begreift man eher, was er wirklich ist: der unsterbliche keltische Druide. Selten erzählt er seine Lebensgeschichte, die mehr ist als eine Zeitreise durch die Geschichte seines schottischen Volkes und führt dabei seine Zuhörer zu den Schauplätzen des Geschehens.