Kate Grenville

El río secreto es una fastuosa novela histórica sobre la llegada del hombre a un entorno salvaje y su ambición por poseerlo. William Thornhill es un barquero analfabeto del Támesis, en el Londres de comienzo del XIX. En una atmosfera que irremediablemente remite a Dickens, es exiliado a Nueva Gales del Sur por un crimen de subsistencia (robo unas maderas para mantener a su familia).El exilio se convierte en una nueva oportunidad para comenzar su vida, consiguiendo para si la propiedad de una parte de la tierra que hay mas alla del rio Hawkesbury, que delimita la zona colonizada.El problema es que esa tierra ya tiene dueño, los aborigenes Darug. Aunque los colonos temen a estos hombres, deciden que no tienen derecho a poseer esas tierras y comienzan a dispararles y envenenarles sin ninguna contemplacion. Solo algunos encuentran la manera de coexistir con ellos, pero la hostilidad entre blancos y aborigenes sigue creciendo. Finalmente un grupo de colonos decide acabar de una vez por toda con los aborigenes y William debera decidir si ir con ellos o no. Una decision que le marcara el resto de su vida. Traducida a 19 idiomas, con 220.000 ejemplares vendidos en Reino Unido, 150.000 en Australia y unos 500.000 en el resto del mundo, ha sido un best seller laureado por la critica mas selecta.

London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly.His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...The Secret River is a universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging.

As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke. De joven, Daniel Rooke fue siempre un chico desplazado. En el colegio, aprendió a esconder sus inteligentes pensamientos de sus crueles compañeros: en casa, sus padres estaban desconcertados por el comportamiento tan estudioso de su hijo. Daniel sólo podía suspirar por que un día, contra toda evidencia, encontrase su lugar en el mundo. Cuando llegó el año 1788, Daniel se había convertido en el Teniente Rooke.

William Thornhill es un barquero analfabeto del Támesis, en el Londres de comienzo del XIX. Es exiliado a Nueva Gales del Sur por robar unas maderas para mantener a su familia; pero esta condena se convierte en una oportunidad para comenzar su nueva vida, ya que retoma su anterior oficio de barquero y consigue la propiedad de una parte de la tierra que hay mas alla del rio Hawkesbury, donde muy pocos se han atrevido a llegar. El problema es que esa tierra ya tiene dueño, los aborigenes Darug. Aunque los colonos temen a estos salvajes, deciden que no tienen derecho a poseerla. En ese punto la angustiosa amenaza sera constante y la trama, llena de aventuras y nuevos descubrimientos, se ira desenvolviendo hacia un epico climax: la lucha por el territorio determinara el limite hasta el cual el hombre esta dispuesto a llegar para defender su verdad.Grenville traza magistralmente la brutal verdad de que la violencia engendra violencia; con un ritmo esplendido, apasionante e inquietante. The Times

William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London. Upon earning his pardon he discovers that this new world offers something he didnt dare dream of: a place to call his own.But as he plants a crop and lays claim to the soil on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, he finds that this land is not his to take. Its ancient custodians are the Dharug people.A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australias dark history, Andrew Bovells adaptation of Kate Grenvilles acclaimed novel The Secret River was first performed by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2013.The play had its UK premiere in August 2019, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, before transferring to the National Theatre, London.This edition includes an introduction by adapter Andrew Bovell, a foreword by historian Henry Reynolds, and music used in the original production.The Secret River is a sad book, beautifully written and, at times, almost unbearable with the weight of loss, competing distresses and the impossibility of making amendsObserver on the novel The Secret River

Grenville KateDie dramatische und abenteuerliche Saga uber die Eroberung des funften Kontinents. Die mehrfach ausgezeichnete Autorin Kate Grenville erzahlt eindrucksvoll von den Traumen der britischen Siedler und dem Zusammenprall mit der Kultur der Aborigines.Im Jahre 1806 kehrt der Londoner Fahrmann William Thornhill seiner Heimatstadt den Rucken. Nicht freiwillig, aber bittere Armut hat ihn zum Gelegenheitsdieb werden lassen. Auf dieses Verbrechen steht die Todesstrafe. Nur seiner mutigen Frau Sal hat er es zu verdanken, dass die Strafe umgewandelt wird in lebenslange Verbannung nach Neusudwales. William erscheint dies schlimmer als der Tod. Doch Sal, die ihn mit den zwei Kindern begleitet, hat sich noch nie geschlagen gegeben. Mit nichts bauen sie sich in der Ansiedlung namens Sydney eine Existenz auf. Ihre leidenschaftliche Liebe ist dabei fur beide eine Kraftquelle. Schnell spuren sie, dass einen, der richtig arbeitet, in der Kolonie niemand aufhalten kann. Ein Boot und dann das von Willi15am hei ersehnte eigene Stuck Land kein Wunsch scheint unerfullbar. An einer Flussmundung nimmt William sein Traumland in Besitz. Trotz ihrer Angst vor der Einsamkeit und vor den schwarzen Ureinwohnern folgt Sal ihrem Mann mit den Kindern in die verlassene Gegend, in die sich bisher nur wenige Siedler trauten. Ganz auf sich gestellt bauen sie ihr eigenes Reich sie lernen, mit den Ureinwohnern in friedlicher Nachbarschaft zu leben, erfahren die brutale Arroganz anderer Weier, die sich selbstverstandlich als Herren sehen und die Schwarzen zu verdrangen suchen. William und Sal hingegen begreifen etwas von der Grundregel des Gebens und Nehmens, nach der die Ureinwohner leben, und zollen ihnen Respekt. Doch der Hass lodert wild auf, und als William ein gefahrliches Geheimnis entdeckt, muss er sich entscheiden, auf welcher Seite er steht.12Ein groer historischer Roman. NDR HF01Anne Rademacher, geboren 1961 in Lippstadt, lebt als freie Lektorin und Ubersetzerin in Bad Waldsee.

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sals deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and Williams gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him. Acclaimed around the world, The Secret River is a magnificent, transporting work of historical fiction.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when societys long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence.Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who is able despite the cost to make a life she could call her own.

A mediados del siglo XIX, la joven Sarah Thornhill lleva una sencilla vida en la colonia australiana de Nueva Gales del Sur. Vive junto a su taciturno padre, ex presidiario, su estricta madrastra, su hermano Will y los criados de la familia a las orillas del rio Hawkesbury, desde donde zarpan los barcos en los que su hermano, y Jack Langland, su gran amor, salen a la caza de focas y ballenas, unico modo de conseguir ahorrar y poder labrarse un futuro independiente. En ese aislado enclave todo parece tranquilo, solo la presencia de la poblacion aborigen parece inquietar a parte de la familia Thornhill, ¿a que se debe tanto miedo? Pero de repente una inesperada muerte y una no menos sorprendente visita haran que la vida de los Thornhill y de Jack de un giro radical y que salgan a la luz ciertas heridas del pasado que aun permanecen abiertas

William Thornhill is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. They arrive in this harsh land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. This story is set in London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But, among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that ''unclaimed'' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs. Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...

Daniel Rooke est un enfant exceptionnellement doué.Ses maîtres l’envoient étudier à l’Académie navale de Portsmouth où il se trouve embarrassé par son origine trop modeste et son intelligence trop vi

Albion Gidley Singer appears an entirely proper man: husband, father, pillar of the community. But he is a hollow man, and within him are frightened and frighteningly dark places from which spring loathing and fear of female flesh. And the kind of violence that might call itself love.Dark Places tells the story of this man - two parts monster to one part buffoon - and of his growing obsession. As the horror mounts, we gain a terrifying glimpse of the male egos dark side, and of the destruction it can wreak upon itself and others. Yet at the same time Kate Grenville keeps alive the readers sympathy for this doomed figure. This is a novel that fearlessly confronts the aspects of ourselves from which we normally recoil.

With an introduction by Evie WyldThe Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny and touching romance between two people whove given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, and Harley Savage, a woman altogether too big and too abrupt for comfort. Harley is in Karakarook to foster Heritage, and Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge. From day one, theyre on a collision course. But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites, something unexpected happens: sometimes even better than perfection.

With an introduction by Evie WyldThe Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny and touching romance between two people whove given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, and Harley Savage, a woman altogether too big and too abrupt for comfort. Harley is in Karakarook to foster Heritage, and Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge. From day one, theyre on a collision course. But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites, something unexpected happens: sometimes even better than perfection.