All Our Shimmering Skies
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Wydawnictwo:
- 4th Estate
- Data wydania:
- 2020-09-28
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2020-09-28
- Liczba stron:
- 448
- Czas czytania
- 7 godz. 28 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 1460753909
- Tagi:
- Darwin Magical realism Coming of age Violence Friendship Death World War II Australia Molly Hook
Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, is looking to the skies and running for her life. Inside a duffel bag she carries a stone heart, alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who she believes put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. The treasure lies before them, but close behind them trails the dark. And above them, always, are the shimmering skies.
A story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves, All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue skies. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking up – a buoyant, beautiful and magical novel, abrim with warmth, wit and wonder.
'Dalton is an author of 19th-century expansiveness, one with a sense that intelligence, talent for characterisation and sheer narrative brio can still be the whole cloth of the writer's ambition ... it is storytelling manna, fallen straight from the Territorian skies.' The Australian
'Achingly beautiful and poetic in its melancholy, All Our Shimmering Skies is a majestic and riveting tale of curses and the true meaning of treasure.' Booklist, starred review
'As Australian as outback red dirt and as universal as the sky young Molly Hook's journey takes place beneath, All Our Shimmering Skies is an open-hearted wonder, by turns heartbreaking and full of hope, no less than an instant classic' Venero Armanno
'Australia has a new literary hero. Molly Hook – part Cordelia, part Jo March, part Pippi Longstocking – pulls us into a story and a landscape that is mythic, beguiling and almost hallucinatory in its beauty. And instantly recognisable as our own' Kristina Olsson
'This is storytelling at its absolute purest, a truly courageous expression of longing, hope and love … against unimaginable odds' Asher Keddie
'All Our Shimmering Skies is the follow-up to Boy Swallows Universe we could have never imagined, but the one Dalton was destined to gift us. It's a story of heroes and villains, foxes and water buffalo, fighter planes and birds of prey, real magic and real love, epitaphs and aphorisms, lost treasure and lost life. It's a love letter to the nation. It's your favourite childhood adventure story dictated by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare, with a score by Franz Liszt. It's dead serious. It's completely ridiculous. It's all of these things and more' Booktopia
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OPINIE i DYSKUSJE
‘The sky gifts,’ Molly says. She likes those words. ‘Just for me?’
‘Just for you, Molly. But you have to keep your eyes on the sky. You have to keep looking up.’ Violet points at the sky. (14)
The novel begins with the gravedigger’s daughter being abandoned by her mother who must leave. Molly Hook reminds herself to stay strong as the day and night sky protect her and become her guards sending not only comfort but precious offerings. As the story continues, the gravedigger’s daughter discovers what she instinctively sensed, her mother has passed away. Convinced that all the misery her family experiences is caused by the Longcoat Bob’s course, the small girl decides to change her destiny and ask the sorcerer to withdraw the hex. On her escapade she confront her pain, asks herself important questions, and learn beautiful lessons which cherish life, love, and courage. In the interview with Frances Whiting for The Daily Telegraph, Trent Dalton reveals that these are the people who are close to our hearts who become the true gifts from the sky (2020). The magical realism combined with events from World War II, Australian landscapes, and exuberant insight into child’s imagination create the unforgettable novel with many unique and sincere metaphors.
The Daily Telegraph. (2020, September 26). Frances Whiting Q&A with Her Friend and Author Trent Dalton. [Video]. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/books/trent-dalton-introduces-the-colourful-cast-of-all-our-shimmering-skies-and-reveals-their-personal-connection/news-story/81f55c5e4e0f35855a4b35b6c75467c1
Trent, D. (2020). All Our Shimmering Skies. Fourth Estate.
‘The sky gifts,’ Molly says. She likes those words. ‘Just for me?’
więcej Pokaż mimo to‘Just for you, Molly. But you have to keep your eyes on the sky. You have to keep looking up.’ Violet points at the sky. (14)
The novel begins with the gravedigger’s daughter being abandoned by her mother who must leave. Molly Hook reminds herself to stay strong as the day and night sky protect her and...