That wasn’t unusual, but that day he had noticed. They did not see another car or person the whole drive home, Nathan remembered clearly. All of these elements affect the story, making each scene all the more evocative.
Harper gives her setting an almost palpable quality: the red sand, the unforgiving and oppressing heat, the treacherous terrain. Living in the Australian outbacks is a real challenge, even if you were grown&bred there. I guess that at its heart this is a story about a family, but even writing that doesn’t do this novel justice.įrom its opening pages until the very last line we are made aware of-what seemed to me-the characters’ surreal surroundings: the sheer scope their land is mind-boggling. To call The Lost Man a crime/mystery novel seems somewhat reductive. “Usual story out here.” Nathan made himself keep his voice even.
0 kommentar(er)
