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Laddar... Fly Away Peter (1982)av David Malouf
  
THE WAR ROOM (530) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) robfwalter | Jul 31, 2023 |  4 stars The first word I think of for this book is lyrical. I could almost hear the orchestration. (It has, in fact been turned into an opera.) It begins quietly with Jim Saddler on his stomach, observing a sandpiper, in the marsh on his employers land. He has an unusual friendship with the wealthy landowner, Ashley Crowther, who employs Jim as a naturalist. The setting is idyllic, and filled with symbolism, on the eve of WW1. The war begins with a great deal of noise and fanfare (brisk marching music, please). First Jim, and then Ashley are drawn into the debacle of European trench warfare. From here the story becomes a predictable tragic opera. Still poignantly beautiful, still filled with avian symbolism. At less than 200 pages, it’s as emotionally moving as many longer books about the first world war. ( ) msjudy | Sep 1, 2019 | ivanfranko | Mar 5, 2018 |  ) kcshankd | Dec 4, 2013 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilisation rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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