Billy's Tree - Kyriacos, Nicholas
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Billy's Tree is a powerful novel that deals with the impossibility of escaping your past and the need to confront longstanding injustices. Not long after Johnnie Butler arrives in Redfern with his mother, he disappears. When found, he is profoundly disturbed. He has lost the power of speech. What has caused Johnnie to descend into silence? This novel traverses the twentieth century, interweaving the experiences of immigrants, Aboriginal stolen children and former World War II prisoners of war. It is about the importance of friendship and community and the need to exorcise ghosts. It is a…mehr

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Billy's Tree is a powerful novel that deals with the impossibility of escaping your past and the need to confront longstanding injustices. Not long after Johnnie Butler arrives in Redfern with his mother, he disappears. When found, he is profoundly disturbed. He has lost the power of speech. What has caused Johnnie to descend into silence? This novel traverses the twentieth century, interweaving the experiences of immigrants, Aboriginal stolen children and former World War II prisoners of war. It is about the importance of friendship and community and the need to exorcise ghosts. It is a deeply moving and unforgettable story, rooted in a specific place, with themes that are universal.
Autorenporträt
Nicholas Kyriacos taught English for 40 years to students aged between 11 to 18 prior to retiring in 2019. Billy's Tree, his first novel, deals with the impossibility of escaping your past and the need to confront injustices. His second novel, The Fall of Donnald Trummp, Sarrah Pallin, Hillary Clinnton, Anon 1488 ... and The Rise of The Coyote! is an irreverent, tragic and comic story which conveys a serious longing to rekindle an America which has betrayed its own ideals. Adam Dreamt, his third novel, was inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm. It focuses on the inhabitants of an isolated ants' nest who are slowly destroying their own civilization. Ants with various characteristics are represented in this story: the philosopher Zekiel the Wise; Adam Ant, the environmentalist who sacrifices all for an ideal; the quixotic Young Nano, who hankers for a better world, and the ruthless ChairAnt of The Council of Elders, AyJay Heartland, whose only concern is power.Comparable works to Adam Dreamt are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for its magic realism and theme; George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm for style, theme and tone and F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, for its cautionary exploration of excess, greed and selfishness.