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Indlæser... The Salt of Broken Tearsaf Michael Meehan
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On the edge of the remote salt flats of Australia, a young woman blows in from nowhere and disturbs the precarious equilibrium of a family farm. The boy is fascinated by her, his mother despises her, and the brutish farmhand wants to possess her. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the only trace of her a bloodied dress, the boy sets out in search of an Indian hawker who may or may not have the answers. As he journeys through the broken landscape, accompanied only by his horse and his dog, the boy becomes aware of another party converging murderously on his destination. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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I have never read anything like this before: it's magnificent.
The Salt of Broken Tears is the story of a boy who sets out across the dry and barren land beyond the Mallee, to search for the missing Cabel Singh the hawker, and for the girl Eileen who has disappeared from his home.
It's an epic journey. The reader moves with this child (who is perhaps twelve or thirteen) across a landscape so eternal and vast that I cannot fathom it. Meehan writes prose like poetry, with fluid images of trees and salt plains and rotting logs all tumbling into one another, not in coarse monotony but in a beauty diverse and endlessly frightening. A boy! And a boy not lost in this extreme landscape, but a boy who is purposeful as no adults are, intent on his mission.
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