Michelle De Kretser: Questions of Travel
Questions of Travel
Buch
- Little Brown and Company, 05/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780316219235
- Bestellnummer: 3307364
- Umfang: 496 Seiten
- Gewicht: 443 g
- Maße: 208 x 136 mm
- Stärke: 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.5.2014
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe -- exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by. Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel -- voluntary in her case, enforced in his.With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be -- home or away. "It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book." -- A. S. Byatt, The Guardian
Biografie
Michelle de Kretser wurde 1957 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, geboren. Ihre Familie emigrierte nach Australien, als sie vierzehn war. Sie studierte Literaturwissenschaft in Melbourne und Paris und arbeitete mehrere Jahre als Lektorin. Die Autorin lebt zurzeit in Melbourne Michelle De Kretser
Questions of Travel
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