Thom Conroy

The Naturalist (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For most of us Ernst Dieffenbach, The Naturalist of the novel's title, is a remote name from the earliest years of New Zealand's British settlement. Thanks to Thom Conroy, we can now read of him as the rare and compelling voice of European liberal ideas and of human decency, in a world where racial condescension and the rage for acquisition were the norm. It is a tough and morally dicey mix the narrative so immerses us in, with one man's challenge to the 'pragmatism' of capital and profit. Here is a dense play of characters across three countries, although New Zealand is where the new world is forged, where rational and humane notions of progress are undermined - 'inevitably' one is sadly compelled to say - by a slew of competing colonial demands. As well as a vivid fiction of a period whose long shadow we still live in, The Naturalist is an elegy too for what history loses on the way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775536499
• Artikelnr.: 54254387

Autorenporträt

Thom Conroy is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey. His short fiction has appeared in various journals in the US and New Zealand, including Landfall, Sport, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Kenyon Review. His fiction has been recognised by Best American Short Stories 2012 and won various other awards, including the Sunday Star Times Short Fiction Competition and the Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Fiction.