📗 Libro en inglés WANTING
RANDOM HOUSE INTERNATIONAL- 9781784702922
Sinopsis de WANTING
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemens 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 Franklins 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 reasons 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.
Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemens 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 Franklins 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 reasons 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Random House International
ISBN: 9781784702922
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/05/2016
Año de edición: 2016
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan nació en 1961 en Tasmania. Su primera novela, Muerte de un guía (DeBolsillo, 2003), recibió en 1996 el National Fiction Award. Su segunda novela, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), fue llevada por él mismo a la gran pantalla y nominada para el Oso de Oro a la mejor película en la Berlinale de 1998. El libro de los peces de William Gould es su tercera novela y obtuvo el Commonwealth Writers Prize en 2002. También es autor de The Unknown Terrorist (2007) y Wanting (2009). En 2014 recibió el premio Man Booker por su última obra, El estrecho camino al norte profundo (Literatura Random House, 2016), una historia de amor y guerra que ha sido publicada en 39 países.
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