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Informationen zum Autor David Malouf Klappentext 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. For both men! war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead! it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself. "The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters! this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epic-despite having some of that form's easy pleasures-and render it poetic."-The New Yorker Zusammenfassung 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. For both men! war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead! it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself. “The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters! this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epic—despite having some of that form's easy pleasures—and render it poetic.”— The New Yorker
