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
| Autorius: | David Malouf |
| Leidėjas: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Išleidimo metai: | 1993 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 342 |
| ISBN-10: | 0679748369 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780679748366 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Fiction: literary & general |
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