English Passengers

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How can you not be pulled into a story that begins thus? On top of that, the man behind this first line bears the auspicious name of Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley, and he is as delightful as his name suggests (though you cannot see his more piratical side from the name, but it is there). Captain Kewley is the light of the story, the comic relief, the voice that steers the reader through the story and indeed through the waters of the globe, from Britain to Tasmania. And there we encounter an atrocious chapter of British imperial history and the denigration of the Tasmanian Aboriginals. Galvenā loma šajā stāstā ir uzticēta Pīvajam (Peevay), kurš ir viens no Tasmānijas aborigēniem. Šajā grāmatā atspoguļots viņa dzīvesstāsts no bērnības, kad aborigēni vēl brīvi klaiņoja savās teritorijās, līdz vecumdienām, kad bez viņa pāri bija palikuši tikai daži citi. Matthew Kneale’s best-known novel is English Passengers (2000), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and brought its author widespread acclaim. Though the rapidly switching styles can be difficult to handle (Dr. Potter’s sections verge on unbearable), the story is built with a beautiful sense of time and place. Characters and sections of seemingly no value come around to powerful and humorous climaxes that fit in perfectly with what has come before. What’s more, the prose is beautifully written, and the style of writing for each character complements their personality in such a way that it seems entirely appropriate rather than tired.Some of the whites genuinely want to help the Aborigines, thinking clothes, crafts, farming and Bible stories will bring salvation, civilisation and happiness.

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A historical novel with some characters and incidents that are based on real life events. The author makes mention of this in an epilogue. I was also aware while reading that I was familiar with a lot of the history of the times, the mid 1800’s, in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmanian via both fact and fiction. Van Diemen's Land / Tasmanian writers of both history and novels are easily my most interesting and/or enjoyable reads in terms of Australia. This wonderful book just adds to that thought. Kneale clearly thought carefully about the language he used. He includes a glossary of Manx terms, though I never needed to refer to it, because context made the meanings clear. He also has a caveat at the beginning about Peevay's speech, which is how he imagines an Aboriginal of the time might speak English, given the influence of white settlers and preachers. Personally, I thought the intent was pretty clear, and the echoes of biblical language obvious. Before I quarter this book to keep the horses warm, a word about the author. You might want to turn away now, if you can't handle the truth. Many months ago I'd read half of some collection of his short stories and was left with the impression: moralist, trying too hard, with too much rope to pull a light load. Then I read that one or more of his parents were published authors. Then I looked at his photo. Everything thus far screamed: prodigal son, overmatched by his legacy.In vicious contrast are the notebook extracts of the surgeon, Dr Potter, whose shorthand scratchings, symbols and underlinings graphically picture the malignities of his logic. He theorises obsessively about racial "types" (the Saxon is a natural ruler, the Celt is indolent), and secretly works on a treatise entitled The Destiny of Nations: "Thus will a new and terrible great conflagration draw near," he scrawls, "a final battle of nations, when the trusty Saxon will be required to struggle anew." What’s new here, the latest literary news, plus fresh giveaways every month. Sent out just once a month, for free. Jumping between an immense cast of characters and following to separate storylines, Kneale’s novel is nothing if not ambitious. Indeed, the alternating narratives with their disparate casts would be taxing enough on any reader, but the novel also alternates its style for each and every character who serves as a POV. While the opening stretch of the novel proved to be quite tedious, I soon found myself warming to the lilt of Captain Kewley’s passages and even more enthralled by Peevay’s account of the savaging of the Aboriginal population in Tasmania. It opens with a philosophical conundrum that defines the book: "Say a man catches a bullet through his skull in somebody's war, so where's the beginning of that?... the day our hero goes marching off to fight... when he's just turned six and sees soldiers striding down the street... that night when a little baby is born?" By extrapolation, who is to blame for the near extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines? Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence's Passengers isn't a romance: it's a creepy ode to manipulation". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022 . Retrieved December 29, 2016.