The Great World

Auteur David Malouf

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ISBN

9780330317863

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

David Malouf

Uitgeverij

Pan Macmillan

Jaar van uitgifte

1991

Aantal pagina’s

336

Waar gaat het over?

The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself. “The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters, this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epic—despite having some of that form's easy pleasures—and render it poetic.”—The New Yorker

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