The Tally Stick
Autor Carl Nixonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2022
- Carl Nixon is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright. He has written four novels and a number of original plays which have been performed throughout New Zealand. He is published by Penguin in New Zealand and Australia, but has never been published in the US
- In The Tally Stick, an upper-class English family arrives in the wilderness of New Zealand only for both parents to be killed in car crash
- Trying to survive alone in the wilderness, their children are transformed by the harsh landscape. They are taken in - kidnapped, really - by two locals who keep them for free labor. The authors explores the siblings' differing responses to their radically changed lifestyle
- When the remains of one of the children is found 30 years after the accident, the children's British aunt tries to solve the mystery of what happened to the family
- A thrilling page-turner and novel of edge-of-the-seat suspense put together like a jigsaw puzzle, with the landscape and weather of the West Coast of New Zealand given a prominent role
- This is highly accessible, commercial fiction
- Film rights sold to Blondini Brothers, a producer from New Zealand
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781642860986
ISBN-10: 1642860980
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: World Editions
ISBN-10: 1642860980
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: World Editions
Notă biografică
Carl Nixon was born in Christchurch in 1967 and is one of New Zealand's leading authors. His books regularly appear on New Zealand's bestselling fiction lists and have been listed for international awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (South East Asia and Australasia region), and the Dublin International IMPAC Awards. He has adapted for the stage Lloyd Jones's novel The Book of Fame and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. The Tally Stick, his latest novel, was on the New Zealand fiction bestseller list for six months and has been shortlisted for the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Preparations for a screen adaptation are underway.
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Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire tracks in the mud leading into an almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. No other cars passed that way until after dawn. By that time the tracks had been washed away by the heavy rain. After being in New Zealand for only five days, the English Chamberlain family had vanished into thin air. The date was 4 April 1978. In 2010 the remains of the eldest Chamberlain child are discovered in a remote part of the West Coast, showing he lived for four years after the family disappeared. Found alongside him are his father's watch and what turns out to be a tally stick, a piece of scored wood marking items of debt. How had he survived and then died? Where is the rest of the family? And what is the meaning of the tally stick?
Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire tracks in the mud leading into an almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. No other cars passed that way until after dawn. By that time the tracks had been washed away by the heavy rain. After being in New Zealand for only five days, the English Chamberlain family had vanished into thin air. The date was 4 April 1978. In 2010 the remains of the eldest Chamberlain child are discovered in a remote part of the West Coast, showing he lived for four years after the family disappeared. Found alongside him are his father's watch and what turns out to be a tally stick, a piece of scored wood marking items of debt. How had he survived and then died? Where is the rest of the family? And what is the meaning of the tally stick?