Shepherd's Hut
Tim Winton
Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
"e;The novel builds suspense like a thriller, or more precisely an Australian western . . . A work of myth . . . reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's The Road."e; -Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial TimesTim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Literary Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among writers in English. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new-always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart.In The Shepherd's Hut, Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he's never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend. The Shepherd's Hut is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers."e;Winton has triumphed again. This is a terrifying, electrifying novel charged by a singular voice and expert storytelling."e; -Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune"e;Here is survivalist fiction at its rawest . . . Hypnotic . . . [Jaxie is] a bracing figure of resilience."e; -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
