Stories from Other Places

Resumen del libro

Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian outback town of Broken Hill, where, on the citizens' annual picnic outing, the only enemy attack to occur on Australian soil during the First World War took them by surprise. The other stories range through India, Africa, Argentina and Canada, and include a magnificent tale of civic folly which sees an unreliable young councillor from the Bolivian mining town of Oruro lose himself in the seductions of Paris while trying to commission a bronze statue of his local hero.

All of them showcase Shakespeare's talent for insight and drama, and his fascination with connection and disconnection and cultural misunderstanding.

Biografía del autor

Nicholas Shakespeare nació en 1957.Hijo de un diplomático, pasó buena partede su juventud en el Extremo Oriente ySudamérica. Se ha desempeñado comoperiodista para la BBC y como editorliterario en The Times, The Daily Telegraph,y The Sunday Telegraph. Entreotras, Pasos de baile, elegida en 1997como la mejor novela del año y trasladadaal cine en 2001 por John Malkovich. En1993, fue elegido uno de los nuevostalentos literarios de Reino Unido por larevista Granta y, desde 1999, es miembrode la Royal Society of Literature.