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Informationen zum Autor Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer , won the Australian /Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows , Cloudstreet , Dirt Music and Breath ) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music ). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia. Klappentext One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land-based whaling in Australia, its last outpost is Angelus, a small town already struggling for survival. Long-dormant passions are awakened by the arrival of the conservationists, who threaten the town's livelihood and disturb the fragile peace under which its inhabitants live. 'Full of strikingly described action . . . an imaginative reconstruction of primitive whaling and the personal suffering involved . . . Tim Winton, in this admirable novel, deals with pride, loneliness, longing for love and the struggle between nostalgic heroes and the heroism of compassion' The Times 'All this is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the heart pound' Los Angeles Times 'A moving and powerful elegy . . . Winton writes vividly, and with courage, about serious matters in a cynical world' Observer 'A major work by anyone's standards . . . mysterious, painful and beautiful' Washington Post ‘That rare thing, not historical fiction, but fiction which brings the history of a place to life’ Washington Post Zusammenfassung ‘That rare thing, not historical fiction, but fiction which brings the history of a place to life’ Washington Post
