Michelle de Kretser

The Rose Grower

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 538790
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780099284055
• ISBN-10: 0099284057
• Artikelnr.: 21681667

Autorenporträt

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia with her family in 1972. She has taught English at the University of Melbourne, as well as working as an editor and book reviewer. Her novels have been published across the world and translated into several languages. The Hamilton Case won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Encore Award and the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Australian and New Zealand fiction. She lives in Melbourne.

Rezensionen

A meditative tale of unrequited love... De Kretser's writing is by turns poetic, metaphorical and delicately elliptical, capable of evoking a mood or change in direction in the subtlest of ways Independent on Sunday