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An isolated property in the middle of Western Australia, just after the Great War. An English heiress has just given birth and unleashed hell. Weakened and grieving, she realises her life is in danger, and flees into the desert with her Aboriginal maid. One of them is running from a murderer; the other is accused of murder. Soon the women are being hunted across the Kimberley by troopers, trackers and the man who wants to silence them both. How they survive in the searing desert and what happens when they are finally found will take your breath away. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Along with a vivid picture of the rugged and wonderful outback, Cicada also evokes the racism and injustice perpetrated on the Aboriginal people by English colonists. The latter half of the novel takes the reader to rough cattle towns, prisons, and a court of law where justice is arbitrarily meted out. Here Emily finds herself as much of an outcast as Wirritjil, no longer fitting her accustomed position and status. By the novel’s end her English perspective on place and time has shifted, as she comes to realize that there is “No yesterday or tomorrow. There was only this moment” (344). While I might have liked more development of the characters’ back-story--particularly of Emily’s forbidden relationship with a half-Aboriginal ranchman, which is told in flashbacks--by the end I found myself moved and amazed. This is a novel to remember. ( )