Патрик Уайт (1912 – 1990) – крупнейший австралийский писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии за 1973 г. Его книга «Древо человеческое» была и...
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Австралия, 1840-е годы. Исследователь Иоганн Фосс и шестеро его спутников отправляются в смертельно опасную экспедицию с амбициозной...
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...
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.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...
Опубликовано в журнале «Иностранная литература» № 4, 1976
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Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape....