Author: Colleen McCullough
Translator: Younghee Kim
Publisher: Munhaksasangsa
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
After last year's The October Horse, the final installment in her series
set in ancient Rome, McCullough returns to her native Australia to chronicle the
adventures of Scotsman Alex Kinross, a headstrong and handsome former
boilermaker's apprentice in Glasgow, now rich and the founder of an eponymous
town in New South Wales. It is the late 19th century, and Alex, who has settled
in Australia after finding gold both in America and Down Under, can find no
suitable bride, so he sends to Scotland for one. Elizabeth, the backward
16-year-old beauty he marries, takes an instant dislike to him: he's no paragon
of sensitivity; he bears an unfortunate resemblance to Satan; and neither his
brilliance, his money or his influence can persuade her to love him. Elizabeth
bears him two daughters-she almost dies giving birth to the second-and forges a
deep friendship with the redoubtable Ruby Costevan, a former madam and Alex's
longtime mistress. But poor Elizabeth just can't be happy, until she meets
Ruby's half-Chinese son, Lee. Lee returns Elizabeth's regard tenfold, but
because he's as upstanding as he is beautiful, he makes himself scarce to avoid
upsetting Elizabeth or Alex, whom he loves. When he can bear it no longer, Lee
decides Alexander must be told-but at what price? Frontier speculation, domestic
strife, industrialization, a terrible rape and a brutal murder: all these mold
and buffet the Kinross clan until a final, tragic act of generosity promises to
end the pain. Though they are frequently at the mercy of the novel's complex
plot, McCullough's characters win sympathy with their spirited striving for love
and honor.
About The Author
Colleen McCullough enjoys worldwide renown, and her
novels are bestsellers in a multitude of languages. She is the author of The
Thorn Birds, Tim, An Indecent Obsession, A Creed for the Third Millennium, The
Ladies of Missalonghi, The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortunes
Favorites, as well as Caesars Women. She lives with her husband, Ric Robinson,
on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.
Best known for
The Thorn Birds.
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