In this volume of stories, first published in 1985, David Malouf evokes with compassion the emotions and excitement of adolescence, the melancholy threads that tie American immigrants to the Europe they left behind, and the sad, nostalgic power with which we endow the ordinary objects of life.[...]
The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.[...]
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Bablyon te[...]
From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son Hector being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way of reclaiming the body - of pitting compromise against heroics, new ways against the old, and of forcing the hand of fate. Dressed simply and in a cart pulled by a mule, [...]
Focusing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, this book tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds.[...]
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thir[...]
In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape[...]
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity o[...]
Miss Hare lives alone in the ruins of her family estate in the 1960s suburbs of Sydney, attended only by her housekeeper Mrs. Jolley. In her wanderings Miss Hare meets Alf Dubbo, an aboriginal artist; Mordecai Himmelfarb, a Holocaust survivor; and Mrs. Godbold, a local washerwoman. Tender and lacera[...]
Huset i Brisbane som den australiensiske författaren David Malouf växte upp i förvandlas i hans barndomskildring till den egentliga berättaren. Varje rum har sin egen historia, sin egen topografi, och dess möbler och föremål bildar tillsammans en nästan mytologisk karta över ett liv. Huset [...]
En man som hämnas sin bäste vän, och en far i sorg över sin döde son. En krigskämpe och en kung från motsatta läger, båda upphöjda och nära gudarna, vars lidanden ställs mot varandra, och möts.
David Maloufs Lösen tar sin utgångspunkt i en av litteraturhistoriens mest känd[...]
Stora världen är förlagd till åren mellan 1920 och 1988 och ger en inblick i över sjuttio år av Australiens historia. Det är en brett upplagd, allvarlig och varm, berättelse om två unga män som lär känna varandra när de under andra världskriget hamnar som japanska krigsfångar vid Död[...]
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully r[...]
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's "Iliad"--one of the most famous passages in all of literature.
This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved [...]