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1 gen 2005 · Kate Grenville. In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s ...
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Kate Atkinson, Zadie Smith, Il premio cambia nome in "Women's Prize for Fiction". Sesto romanzo della Homes. 2014 Eimear McBride: Una ragazza lasciata a metà: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Hannah Kent, Jhumpa Lahiri, Audrey Magee, Donna Tartt, Premio rinominato "Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction".
13 ago 2020 · Kate Grenville says A Room Made of Leaves is her book she is most satisfied with. ‘The whole idea of questioning stories has cracked open for me – I don’t know where I go next with this.’
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The Secret River is set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier between British colonists and Australia’s indigenous people: the Hawkesbury River, fifty miles from Sydney. Many of its details are based on my own family history. Like the character William Thornhill, my great-great-great grandfather Solomon Wiseman was an ...
14 apr 2022 · With Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters, Grenville does what she was just pretending to do in A Room Made of Leaves: she acts as editor and transcriber – and many ways, translator – of Elizabeth ...
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