Opis: Wanting - Richard Flanagan

Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen?s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin?s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism.
Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason?s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night.

Szczegóły: Wanting - Richard Flanagan

Tytuł: Wanting
Autor: Richard Flanagan
Wydawnictwo: Vintage
ISBN: 9781784702922
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 260
Format: 12.5x19.5cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.195 kg

Recenzje: Wanting - Richard Flanagan