Австралия, 1840-е годы. Исследователь Иоганн Фосс и шестеро его спутников отправляются в смертельно опасную экспедицию с амбициозной...
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Патрик Уайт (1912 – 1990) – крупнейший австралийский писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии за 1973 г. Его книга «Древо человеческое» была и...
В сборник вошли лучшие, наиболее характерные рассказы, отражающие тематическое и художественное многообразие этого жанра в...
In White’s 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children — Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat — wait. It is the dying mother who will...
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed — and stricken — with...
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero — Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn — and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White...
This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They...
Опубликовано в журнале «Иностранная литература» № 4, 1976
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A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the...