This story is set in London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But, among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that 'unclaimed' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs. Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...
凱特·格倫維爾(1950— ) 國際知名的澳大利亞女作傢,獲得過悉尼大學和美國科羅拉多大學的學位,曾分彆在歐洲和美國工作和學習過七年。做過電影編輯、記者、打字員和教師。已有六部小說問世並獲多種文學奬項,其中《完美的想法》獲2001年英國橘子奬,《麗蓮的故事》(已被拍成電影)、《黑暗之地》、《瓊創造瞭曆史》等深受評論傢和讀者喜愛。《神秘的河流》是她迄今在國際上最有影響的代錶作。
格倫維爾擅長在自己創作的曆史小說中探討澳大利亞在殖民時期和當代的階級、種族和性彆問題。
索尼爾童年多半的記憶是寒冷、飢餓以及為瞭遠離寒冷和飢餓進行的偷竊,姐姐說他的名字像汙垢一樣庸俗,他告訴姐姐:威廉•索尼爾會占滿全世界的。 索尼爾會在弟弟嘴裏搶麵包,“一旦咽下,就不可能被要迴去瞭。”索尼爾會等哥哥睡著瞭,再把大半床毯子拉過來蓋在自...
評分 評分 評分索尼爾童年多半的記憶是寒冷、飢餓以及為瞭遠離寒冷和飢餓進行的偷竊,姐姐說他的名字像汙垢一樣庸俗,他告訴姐姐:威廉•索尼爾會占滿全世界的。 索尼爾會在弟弟嘴裏搶麵包,“一旦咽下,就不可能被要迴去瞭。”索尼爾會等哥哥睡著瞭,再把大半床毯子拉過來蓋在自...
評分很有意思的一本書。沒有傳統意義的對錯之分,隻是一群可憐人為瞭生存而戰。爭執的對象是土地,與人類息息相關的資源。以索尼爾為代錶的流放犯和澳大利亞土著人爭奪土地。最後自詡為“文明人”的殖民者雖然勝利瞭,卻用餘生去懺悔曾經的屠殺和掠奪。而且奪得瞭土地不意味著消滅...
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