Read Around Oceania Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Oceania.
Best books from Oceania (404)
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Mi lugar es el relato vivo y descarnado de la escritora y pintora australiana Sally Morgan y narra la historia de tres generaciones de mujeres y su búsqueda infatigable de la verdad. Mi lugar es una autobiografía escrita con un estilo directo y penetrante en el que la autora nos relata su vida en los años 50 en su pueblo natal (Perth). Desde niña, sus compañeros la hicieron sentirse distinta a ella y a sus cuatro hermanos por el color de su piel, así que su madre les contó que eran hindúes. Su padre, trastornado por la un guerra, muere cu... continue
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The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave EN
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'Nick Cave will obviously live forever, just because the Devil's scared of him.' Rolling Stone.
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This All Come Back Now : An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction by Mykaela Saunders EN
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The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, 'this all come back'- all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we'd gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back aroun... continue
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On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta EN
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Taylor Markham is not a popular choice. She is erratic, has no people skills and never turns up to meetings. Not to mention the incident when she ran off in search of her mother and only got halfway there. But she's lived at Jellicoe School most of her life and as leader of the boarders that's her greatest asset. Especially now the cadets, led by the infamous Jonah Griggs, have arrived. The territory wars between the boarders, townies and cadets are about to recommence. But Taylor has other things on her mind: a prayer tree, the hermit who whispered in her ear, and a vaguely familiar drawing i... continue
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La habitación de invitados by Helen Garner ES
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Merecedora de diversos premios, así como del aplauso de la crítica y el favor de miles de lectores en diversos países en Alemania figura en la lista de éxitos hasta la fecha , esta novela marca el regreso a la ficción de Helen Garner, autora de enorme prestigio en su Australia natal. El carácter autobiográfico de esta hermosa y emocionante exploración del ser más profundo queda evidente en las características de su personaje principal, Helen, una escritora de edad madura y arquetipo de la mujer moderna y emancipada. Helen prepara con esmero el cuarto de invitados a la espera de la llegada de s... continue
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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks EN
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A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually bec... continue
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And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave EN
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And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave's classic Gothic novel, in its full and original form Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both... In 2009 Cave released a cut-down version of his novel but this re... continue
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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks EN
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A werewolf? I kept stumbling over that word; it made no sense to me. How could I be a werewolf? Werewolves didn't exist. When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Toby's prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones about Toby being a werewolf. Reuben's pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support g... continue
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