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IN CERTAIN CIRCLES
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2015.
IN CERTAIN CIRCLES tells the story of two sets of siblings growing up in Sydney whose lives unexpectedly connect. Zoe Howard is seventeen when her beloved brother Russell introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is not like anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. Stephen's sister Anna is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. Zoe and Russell, Stephen and Anna: they may come from different social worlds but all four will spend their lives moving in and out of each other's shadow.
Set amid the lush gardens and grand stone houses that line the north side of Sydney Harbour, IN CERTAIN CIRCLES is an intense psychological drama about family and love, about tyranny and freedom.
The manuscript of IN CERTAIN CIRCLES has lain buried in the archives of the national Library for many years. Until now it was widely thought that THE WATCH TOWER was Harrower's last novel, the masterpiece that she wrote before ceasing to publish. In fact Harrower wrote IN CERTAIN CIRCLES in the late 1960s and worked on it intensively before she withdrew it from publication at the last minute in early 1971. She was then in her early forties and arguably in the prime of her literary career.Text will publish this novel for the first time in May 2014, more than forty years after it was completed.
IN GEWISSEN KREISEN
Deutsch von Alissa Walser
[HC Aufbau 05/16]
IN CERTAIN CIRCLES tells the story of two sets of siblings growing up in Sydney whose lives unexpectedly connect. Zoe Howard is seventeen when her beloved brother Russell introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is not like anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. Stephen's sister Anna is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. Zoe and Russell, Stephen and Anna: they may come from different social worlds but all four will spend their lives moving in and out of each other's shadow.
Set amid the lush gardens and grand stone houses that line the north side of Sydney Harbour, IN CERTAIN CIRCLES is an intense psychological drama about family and love, about tyranny and freedom.
The manuscript of IN CERTAIN CIRCLES has lain buried in the archives of the national Library for many years. Until now it was widely thought that THE WATCH TOWER was Harrower's last novel, the masterpiece that she wrote before ceasing to publish. In fact Harrower wrote IN CERTAIN CIRCLES in the late 1960s and worked on it intensively before she withdrew it from publication at the last minute in early 1971. She was then in her early forties and arguably in the prime of her literary career.Text will publish this novel for the first time in May 2014, more than forty years after it was completed.
IN GEWISSEN KREISEN
Deutsch von Alissa Walser
[HC Aufbau 05/16]
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Published 2014-05-01 by Text Publishing |