John Dollar

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When Charlotte Lewes, young, newly widowed by World War I, and deeply unhappy, decides to embark for Rangoon in 1918, she is looking to escape the ruins of her old life. As a schoolteacher in colonial Burma, she comes alive again in the sensual climate of the Orient, discovering the spirituality of Buddhist temples and monks beside which the Church of England pales, preferring a house on stilts near the bay to the colonial compound, and, in a stunning nocturnal scene, meeting John Dollar, a sailor, the man with whom she will share a passionate love and whose own ill-fated destiny shapes the disturbing course of the novel. On a festive expedition to a distant island, which the colonials want to claim, rename, and offer to their beloved King George, the tightly knit British community falls prey to disaster: Fathers and mothers and sons, servants and crew, all disappear from the three British ships one night, while an earthquake and tidal wave sweep John Dollar, Charlotte, and eight... Tovább

Fülszöveg

When Charlotte Lewes, young, newly widowed by World War I, and deeply unhappy, decides to embark for Rangoon in 1918, she is looking to escape the ruins of her old life. As a schoolteacher in colonial Burma, she comes alive again in the sensual climate of the Orient, discovering the spirituality of Buddhist temples and monks beside which the Church of England pales, preferring a house on stilts near the bay to the colonial compound, and, in a stunning nocturnal scene, meeting John Dollar, a sailor, the man with whom she will share a passionate love and whose own ill-fated destiny shapes the disturbing course of the novel. On a festive expedition to a distant island, which the colonials want to claim, rename, and offer to their beloved King George, the tightly knit British community falls prey to disaster: Fathers and mothers and sons, servants and crew, all disappear from the three British ships one night, while an earthquake and tidal wave sweep John Dollar, Charlotte, and eight young girls who are Charlotte's pupils off the ships anchored near the island and into the violent sea. When the eight girls come to consciousness again on the beaches of this Island of Our Outlawed Dreams, they huddle around John Dollar, who is paralyzed from the waist down. An atmosphere of menace and doom builds, culminating in some shocking, absolutely riveting scenes of death and survival. Vissza