Read Around Oceania Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Oceania.
Best books from Oceania (403)
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Dornenvögel by Colleen McCullough DE
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Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts macht sich Paddy Cleary mit seiner vielköpfigen Familie von Irland auf, um nach Australien auszuwandern. Seine Schwester hat dort eine Farm, die Arbeit und Wohlstand verspricht. Trotz familiärer Spannungen und den Anforderungen, die das raue Land an seine Bewohner stellt, scheinen die Clearys mehr oder weniger in Frieden zu leben. Doch der Schein trügt - Paddys jüngste Tochter Meggie liebt den attraktiven Priester Ralph de Bricassart. Und als sie zur Frau heranreift, kann auch Ralph sich ihrem Zauber nicht mehr entziehen...
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The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959 At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a... continue
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Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville EN
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Kate Grenville describes her quest to find her convict ancestor, and to understand his life.
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"In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family."--
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The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough EN
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In Missalonghi, on Missy Wright's family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains, It's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging!
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Ambigüedad by Elliot Perlman ES
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Perlman ha sido justamente comparado con Jonathan Franzen: son buenos creando personajes, personas comunes en situaciones especiales; y escriben libros innecesariamente largos.
Ambigüedad está dividida en siete partes, cada una centrada en uno de los protagonistas. La séptima parte, doce años después de los hechos, está reservada para un personaje secundario, y pretende integrar la historia, modificando el eje de centralidad.
Más que la ambigüedad, el gran protagonista es la comunicación entre los protagonistas, supuestos entendimien... continue
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Saudade by Suneeta Peres Da Costa EN
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A Goan immigrant family caught between their complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in Angola pre-independence.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan EN
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has l... continue
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Remembering Babylon : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) by David Malouf EN
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Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a ... continue