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The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award -winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf. [1] Synopsis. It is an epic novel telling the story of two Australians during the turmoil of World War I; and their imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II. Critical reception.
- David Malouf
- 332 pp
- 1990
- 1990
27 dic 1989 · The Great World is a sweeping historical epic describing the fortunes of two Australian families between two great economic crises, the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1987. Vic and Digger (Albert), the two central figures, are both born into poverty in the 1920s in smalltown Australia.
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31 ott 2012 · But The Great World is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a...
The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran.
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The Great World. David Malouf. Chatto & Windus, 1990 - Fiction - 332 pages. Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eleoquent than in Australia,...
5 feb 1999 · But The Great World is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.
The Great World is a smashing performance, a novel of intense perception and formidable power. It follows two men who first come to know each other when, after the collapse of Singapore, they...
