Randolph Stow Livres
Randolph Stow était un conteur doté d'une sensibilité extraordinaire pour le paysage et son influence sur la psyché humaine. Ses œuvres explorent fréquemment le choc des cultures, la nostalgie des patries perdues et le poids de l'histoire. Stow mêlait avec maestria des éléments de mythe et de réalité, créant une atmosphère qui entraînait les lecteurs dans les profondeurs de l'âme humaine et de terres lointaines. Son style distinctif, façonné à la fois par l'arrière-pays australien et la campagne anglaise, a laissé une marque indélébile dans la littérature moderne.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Even though MIDNITE was seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in prison. So it was just as well that in the end he found GOLD! A brilliantly good-humoured and amusing history of the exploits of Captain Midnite and his five good animal friends.
Tourmaline
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael Random emerges from the desert, desperate townspeople see him as a messiah. Random begins to spread the word of God—and to promise them water, that most precious resource. Both a complex spiritual parable and an enduring apocalyptic vision, Tourmaline is Randolph Stow’s most controversial novel.
