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A ROOM MADE OF LEAVES
A ROOM MADE OF LEAVES is an extraordinary novel which takes as its starting point the story of a young Englishwoman in the late eighteenth century, and breaks it open into a playful dance of possibilities.
Intelligent and educated, Elizabeth Macarthur is a farmer's daughter raised in a world Jane Austen would have understood, but when she finds herself pregnant to the enigmatic young soldier John Macarthur, her life changes forever. As the first soldier's wife to arrive in the infant colony of New South Wales, Elizabeth is unprepared both for its brutal isolation, and the demands of her difficult and unpredictable husbandbut she comes to learn that her new home offers her opportunities that she could otherwise have scarcely imagined.
What if Elizabethwife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydneyhad written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir.
What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Her memoir explodes the stereotype of the women of the past: devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices.
At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times: the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality.
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her most recent books are two works of non-fiction, One Life: My Mother's Story and The Case Against Fragrance. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
EIN RAUM AUS BLaeTTERN
Deutsch von Anne Emmert
[HC Nagel & Kimche 07/2021]
Intelligent and educated, Elizabeth Macarthur is a farmer's daughter raised in a world Jane Austen would have understood, but when she finds herself pregnant to the enigmatic young soldier John Macarthur, her life changes forever. As the first soldier's wife to arrive in the infant colony of New South Wales, Elizabeth is unprepared both for its brutal isolation, and the demands of her difficult and unpredictable husbandbut she comes to learn that her new home offers her opportunities that she could otherwise have scarcely imagined.
What if Elizabethwife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydneyhad written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir.
What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Her memoir explodes the stereotype of the women of the past: devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices.
At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times: the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality.
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her most recent books are two works of non-fiction, One Life: My Mother's Story and The Case Against Fragrance. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
EIN RAUM AUS BLaeTTERN
Deutsch von Anne Emmert
[HC Nagel & Kimche 07/2021]
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Published 2020-07-01 by Text Publishing |