Stories from Other Places

Zusatztext

<p>Nicholas Shakespeares collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.</p><p>The opening novella, Oddfellows, tells the little-known history of the only enemy attack on Australian soil during the Great War, when, in January 1915, the outback town of Broken Hill was rocked by horrifying events.</p><p>From this dramatic First World War encounter, we are taken to the faded glamour of 1960s Bombay, to a Bolivian mining town in 1908 where civic folly is running amok, and to an Argentinian farm presided over by a former air stewardess and her husband.</p><p>Across ocean and continents, these are stories of connection and disconnection, misunderstanding and missed opportunities, identity and displacement.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Nicholas Shakespeare</b>was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into 20 languages. They include<i>The Vision of Elena Silves (</i>winner of the Somerset Maugham Award),<i>Snowleg</i>,<i>The Dancer Upstairs</i>,<i>Secrets of the Sea</i>,<i>Inheritance</i>and<i>Priscilla</i>. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He currently lives in Oxford.

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