by Patrick White · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140039634
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«The Eye of the Storm» is the literary fiction novel by Patrick White, published by Penguin in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Elizabeth Hunter, an octogenarian socialite, experiences something almost mystical during a storm in Sydney in the last days of her life; the episode transforms her relationship with those around her. From there, the novel delves into family tensions and the mixed feelings that sustain and erode those bonds: love and resentment, humour and pain, longing and disillusionment.
The novel was originally published in 1973, the year Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of literary fiction and modern classics, especially those who appreciate Australian narrative and Nobel Prize-winning authors.
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work that challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to have been awarded it.
