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Дженет Фрейм - автор 10 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Под крики сов, Owls Do Cry, An Angel at my Table. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
«Под крики сов» – проникновенная история детей семьи Уизерс, живущих в маленьком городке в Новой Зеландии в середине XX века. Тринадцатилетняя Фрэнси мечтает стать оперной певицей, но вынуждена бросить школу и устроиться на работу. Жизнь Тоби омрачена приступами эпилепсии, пугающими сестер и окружающих. Самая младшая, Тереза, пытается избавиться от детского прозвища Цыпка. А невероятное воображени...
Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, a crisis is provoked which leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she is given shock treatment. Her voice from 'the Dead Room' haunts the novel with its poetic insights.
This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin. Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution. Labelled as a schizophrenic, Janet spent eight harrowing years in psychiatric hospitals ...
"One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature... A masterpiece" Anita Brookner.
This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into focus a crucial turning point in her life.
The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky' Grace Cleave is spending a weekend away from London, where she has been battling with writer's block. But on holiday in the north of England she feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her own place in the world - If she...
