Bruce Hanna

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Babu (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Babu is a naked infant terror, an outrage to his hate-filled village at the furthest end of nowhere. In a world ruled by demons, spirits and greed, he finds enlightenment in a whirlwind of life and death. Babu suffers starvation and earthquakes, unaware of his true value and his enduring effect on all those he encounters in his philosophical pilgrimage and his constant quest for food and kindness. Cursed by birth and clad in grubby loincloth and turban, Babu is a fresh breath of unwashed air among superstitious and ignorant villagers far from civilisation. They beat him and treat him like a criminal imbecile. Babu rebels against their authority and the inequality he finds in poverty around him, and all of life's bad luck. He survives by stealing food and foraging in the wilderness. Driven by hunger and festering ambition Babu longs for a better life. He sees himself as the loneliest man in the world with rats and dogs his only companions. He has a secretive relationship with the local schoolteacher; a modern man with a pencil behind his ear. He develops an enduring friendship with the boozy priest Baba, a holy man banished in disgrace from the distant Great Monastery. Baba encourages Babu's search for wisdom in the twisted world of magic and evil. Despite everything turning against him, and despite the disadvantages of his humblest station in life, Babu finds wisdom, he finds work, he finds love, he finds a home, he finds wealth. He rises above all adversity. He is transformed from a sneaky childhood thief born as an orphan in the wilderness, to achieve greatness as a philosopher of celebrated renown.

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Autor

"I'm not considered a proper writer in literary circles. My stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect on the windscreen of a speeding vehicle, straight from the gut, with a bit of heart and brain-juice in the mix."

"Each New Year I see fireworks exploding over cities round the World. I can't tell if they are celebrating the bombing of Hanoi, Bagdad, Ukraine, or Gaza, or somewhere else next."

"Pity the untold victims of Victory's sins, pieceworkers on the process-line of revenge, pawns in a game of Lose Your Way to the End, where all is concealed behind the shield of bloodstains, bullet-holes & election posters..." - The Slow Motion Murder of Julian Assange.

"My life went on for two seasons and ten episodes before I realised, I'd seen it all before."

"Behind my back one of the Communist Party big shots muttered, When you see him coming, tell your ears to run."

"People crack up the minute I walk in the door. I can't see what they're laughing for. Was it something I forgot to not say? Too bad..." - Mad Dog on Crazy Street.

"You can't make a peace sign when you're wearing a boxing glove." - Anthem for the 21st Century.

"My neighbour believed in the afterlife. She often said, the best place to pick-up a good man is down at the morgue. I thought she was joking, till I turned up at her wedding. She asked what I thought of her fiancée? I said, "To be sure, he's a cool looking dude. But how come he's naked? And why is that baggage ticket tied round his big toe?"

"After growing-up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, I became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to my refusal to collaborate in the US-led axis-of-evil against Vietnam. I was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government. But I got no medal as an anti-war Vet."

"While on the run, my writing and cartoons first appeared on fringes of the Australian press, continuing in The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune, Overland and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of poetry, in an illustrated homage Suicide Circus, in PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999), and my first novel, Fatal Moments (published by Angus & Robertson in 1987)."

"Peter Bowler (Canberra Times) remarked on the "delicious thread of dry humour r...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bruce Hanna
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370159895
• Artikelnr.: 48364624