The Divine Wind
'an outstanding piece of writing...a powerful novel...' Reading TimeFriendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed...In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Can their love survive as Japan enters the War and Mitsy encounters prejudice and hate?In this beautifully written novel, Garry Disher evokes a war-devastated Australia and its effects on young adults forced to leave t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7344-1402-1
- EAN: 9780734414021
- Produktnummer: 22940596
- Verlag: Hachette Australia
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 473 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 J.
Über den Autor
Garry Disher grew up on a wheat and wool farm in South Australia. He has an MA in Australian History and has lived, worked and travelled in England, Italy, Israel and southern Africa. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first collection of short stories. Garry worked as a writing lecturer between the years 1980 and 1988, before becoming a full-time writer. His publications include short stories, literary novels, crime thrillers, anthologies and award-winning children's titles.
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