by Matthew Kneale · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435006897
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«Viajeros ingleses» is the historical novel by Matthew Kneale, published by Edhasa in hardback (648 pages, in Spanish).
In nineteenth-century Tasmania, a smuggler, a clergyman convinced that the biblical Eden lies in the antipodes, and a scientist determined to prove the superiority of the white race come together. The young Aboriginal Peevay witnesses a royal expedition that becomes a clash of cultures and a search for identity narrated with irony.
Narrativas Históricas collection. Translation by Patricia Antón de Vez. Original title: English Passengers. It won the Whitbread Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction, with an interest in the colonial past and the encounter between cultures.
Matthew Kneale is a British writer. He is best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers.
