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发表于2024-11-09
The Secret River pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
This story is set in London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But, among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that 'unclaimed' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs. Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...
凱特·格倫維爾(1950— ) 國際知名的澳大利亞女作傢,獲得過悉尼大學和美國科羅拉多大學的學位,曾分彆在歐洲和美國工作和學習過七年。做過電影編輯、記者、打字員和教師。已有六部小說問世並獲多種文學奬項,其中《完美的想法》獲2001年英國橘子奬,《麗蓮的故事》(已被拍成電影)、《黑暗之地》、《瓊創造瞭曆史》等深受評論傢和讀者喜愛。《神秘的河流》是她迄今在國際上最有影響的代錶作。
格倫維爾擅長在自己創作的曆史小說中探討澳大利亞在殖民時期和當代的階級、種族和性彆問題。
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評分作为小说,很纯粹,如果不想动脑子,那么就顺着那条河流一直漂浮. 从英国到澳大利亚,变化的不只是经纬,还有关于人生的思考.是非之地或许,但是谁知道呢. 土著和移民,一定是对立的么,我看到了别的. 总之是很精彩.
The Secret River pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024