The hanging garden / Patrick White ; read by Humphrey Bower.
Publication details: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2017.Edition: MP3 edition ; UnabridgedDescription: 1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (5 hr., 37 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerISBN:- 9781489376626
- 9781489376657
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Audio Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Audio Books | WHI | Available | 066032 |
Read by Humphrey Bower.
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world. With the tenderness and rigour of an old, wise novelist, Patrick White explores the world of these children, the city of his childhood and the experience of war. The Hanging Garden ends as the news reaches Sydney of victory in Europe, and the children face their inevitable separation. White put the novel aside at this point and how he planned to finish the work remains a mystery. But at his death he left behind a masterpiece in the making.
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