Wanting
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 20141841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl wearing a red silk dress sits for her portrait. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization - one that will determine whether science, Christianity and reason can be imposed in place of savagery, impulse and desire.A quarter of a century passes. Somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared, along with his crew and two ships, on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85789-912-5
- EAN: 9780857899125
- Produktnummer: 15913242
- Verlag: Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Richard Flanagan
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