Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.
En un alarde asombroso del arte del ventrílocuo, Carey da vida al mítico bandolero australiano Ned Kelly, al huérfano, Edipo, ladrón de caballos, granjero, asaltador de bancos, asesino de tres policías y, finalmente, el Robin Hood de Australia, en una voz tan original y llena de pasion que parece que el mismisimo Kelly noshable desde la ultratumba.
Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic Englishwoman who makes her living in the cloistered world of literary London until she impulsively follows a family friend, poet John Slater, to Kuala Lumpur. Temporarily abandoned, she encounters another poet, the strange and forgotten Christopher Chubb.
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water,' he writes, 'but that is exactly what was in my mind as I walked through immigration at Kingsford Smith International Airport.' But Carey's friends turn out to be anarchic characters each of whom has had his own very individual ways of story-telling. Carey draws the reader helplessly into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and re-discovery. Reading this book is a very physical experience, as bracing as the famous Southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's beauteous shores. Famous visual extravaganzas such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of Peter and his friends. "Thirty Days In Sydney" offers the reader a private glimpse behind the glittering facades and the venetian blinds. It will exhilarate and enchant all who visit.
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda, powerfully evokes the legend of nineteenth-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, he is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned sees his first prison cell at fifteen and by the age of twenty-six has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he is finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.
Les aventures d'un delinqüent anglès que, després d'una vintena llarga d'anys desterrat a Austràlia, torna clandestinament a Anglaterra per a retrobar un jove a qui ha estat protegint durant tot aquest temps. A Anglaterra es troba amb el desagraïment de Phipps i el mediocre egoisme de l'escriptor Tobias Oates, juntament amb una societat cruel i despietada amb les classes treballadores. La novel·la es pot llegir com una gran novel·la en si mateixa, i també com una paròdia àcida de "Grans esperances", de Charles Dickens.
