The Hanging Garden

Resumen del libro

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE EYE OF THE STORM COMES A VIVID, VISCERAL TALE OF CHILDHOOD FRIENDSHIP AND SEXUAL AWAKENING FROM BEYOND THE ECHOES OF WORLD WAR II.


Sydney, Australia, 1942. Two children, on the cusp of adolescence, have been spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter in a house on Neutral Bay, taken in by the charity of an old widow who wants little to do with them. The boy, Gilbert, has escaped the Blitz. The girl, Eirene, lost her father in a Greek prison. Left to their own devices, the children forge a friendship of startling honesty, forming a bond of uncommon complexity which they sense will shape their destinies for years to come.

The first part of an unfinished novel, The Hanging Garden is a breathtaking and fully satisfying work that reads as a complete story. Seamlessly shifting among points of view, and written in dazzling prose, Patrick White's mastery of style and highly inventive storytelling will transport you as few writers can.