Questions of Travel: A Novel
Autor Michelle de Kretseren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2014
"It
is
not
really
possible
to
describe,
in
a
short
space,
the
originality
and
depth
of
this
long
and
beautifully
crafted
book."--A.S.
Byatt,Guardian
Laura
Fraser
grows
up
in
Sydney,
motherless,
with
a
cold,
professional
father
and
an
artistic
bent.
Ravi
Mendis
lives
on
the
other
side
of
the
globe--exploring
the
seductive
new
world
of
the
Internet,
his
father
dead,
his
mother
struggling
to
get
by.
Their
stories
alternate
throughout
Michelle
de
Kretser's
ravishing
novel,
culminating
in
unlikely
fates
for
them
both,
destinies
influenced
by
travel--voluntary
in
her
case,
enforced
in
his.
With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21stcentury, they belong wherever they want to and can be--home or away.
With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21stcentury, they belong wherever they want to and can be--home or away.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316219235
ISBN-10: 0316219231
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316219231
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Michelle
de
Kretser
is
a
Sri
Lankan
who
has
lived
in
Australia
for
several
years.
She
is
the
author
of
the
novelsThe
Rose
Grower,The
Hamilton
Case,
andThe
Lost
Dog,and
she
is
currently
an
associate
of
the
English
Department
at
the
University
of
Sydney.
Recenzii
Praise
forQuestions
of
Travel
"This is a novel unlike any other I have read....Questions of Travelis about uprootedness and travel, about tourism and flight from terror, about the trivial and the terrible....It seems to proceed with an uncanny lightness, in glimpses and sudden shifts. De Kretser is a master storyteller and again and again prepares small--and large--shocks that explode tens of pages later, and cannot be given away."--A.S. Byatt,Guardian
"Studded with fine and funny writing, bursts of affecting drama, and disarming images."--New York Times Book Review
"Questions of Travelshould ensure her place as a serious international novelist of the first rank."--Economist
"De Kretser's brilliantly observed new novel explores the meaning of travel....She offers deadly darts of observation that puncture clichés and deflate false enthusiasm. In the end she leaves you flat on the ground, possessed of harder truths."--Publisher's Weekly(Boxed Review)
"Exquisite, haunting....As she traces Laura's and Ravi's lives over four decades, de Kretser's style is poetic, indelible, and often breathtaking in its beauty."--Library Journal(Starred Review)
"Questions of Travelis that gleaming thing that makes everything around it seem dull in comparison. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read."--The Globe and Mail
"De Kretser writes movingly of the sudden attachments and partings that mark her characters' peripatetic lives. And her evocations of place are wonderfully precise... Even as she evokes the pleasures of travel, however, de Kretser wants us to think about its underlying meaning and purpose... She raises profound questions-is the connectedness of modern life an improvement over the rootedness of old? Is any attempt to confront a foreign culture fated to end in dubious simplifications?-but like all the best novelists, she leaves the answers up to her readers." -David Evans,The Independent on Sunday
"As surprising as it is ambitious,Questions of Travelis a satisfying journey through the dislocations of contemporary life." -Arminta Wallace,Irish Times
"This is a novel unlike any other I have read....Questions of Travelis about uprootedness and travel, about tourism and flight from terror, about the trivial and the terrible....It seems to proceed with an uncanny lightness, in glimpses and sudden shifts. De Kretser is a master storyteller and again and again prepares small--and large--shocks that explode tens of pages later, and cannot be given away."--A.S. Byatt,Guardian
"Studded with fine and funny writing, bursts of affecting drama, and disarming images."--New York Times Book Review
"Questions of Travelshould ensure her place as a serious international novelist of the first rank."--Economist
"De Kretser's brilliantly observed new novel explores the meaning of travel....She offers deadly darts of observation that puncture clichés and deflate false enthusiasm. In the end she leaves you flat on the ground, possessed of harder truths."--Publisher's Weekly(Boxed Review)
"Exquisite, haunting....As she traces Laura's and Ravi's lives over four decades, de Kretser's style is poetic, indelible, and often breathtaking in its beauty."--Library Journal(Starred Review)
"Questions of Travelis that gleaming thing that makes everything around it seem dull in comparison. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read."--The Globe and Mail
"De Kretser writes movingly of the sudden attachments and partings that mark her characters' peripatetic lives. And her evocations of place are wonderfully precise... Even as she evokes the pleasures of travel, however, de Kretser wants us to think about its underlying meaning and purpose... She raises profound questions-is the connectedness of modern life an improvement over the rootedness of old? Is any attempt to confront a foreign culture fated to end in dubious simplifications?-but like all the best novelists, she leaves the answers up to her readers." -David Evans,The Independent on Sunday
"As surprising as it is ambitious,Questions of Travelis a satisfying journey through the dislocations of contemporary life." -Arminta Wallace,Irish Times