Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker".
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El australiano Peter Carey es autor de trece novelas, entre las que destacan Oscar y Lucinda (Alfaguara), La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly (El Aleph Editores), Mi vida de farsante (Random House), El embaucador (Alfaguara), La naturaleza de las lágrimas (Alfaguara). Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Booker y sus otros premios incluyen el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth y el Premio Literario Miles Franklin.