Victim of the Aurora

AvThomas Keneally

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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'A powerful and subtle writer...a remarkable novel' Spectator'Chilling and tragic' Ruth RendellIn the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer. The quest for adventure has become a quest for justice.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-02-17
Mått:130 x 198 x 13 mm
Vikt:151 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:9780340407868

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Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published more than thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.

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His story is tightly reined: terse, ironic, reflective. His depiction of Edwardian innocence and stuffiness crashing against the Antarctic void is superb