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De Forellenopera (2011)

by Matthew Condon(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9089530681 (ISBN13: 9789089530684)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Ailantus

review 1: Unforgettable gentle soul, Wilfred Lampe lives to a hundred years, never leaving his birthplace, never getting married.....this guy is up there with Forest Gump, Owen Meany and Eyeore as memorable men in literature! Simultanoously, the history of Australia must charm the reader. Graham, who speaks his mind and always gets in trouble for it, is another character worth remembering. In his drunken babbling on radio many a truth is spoken.
review 2: OK, I admit, I picked this novel up in the bookstore because of the title and the cover...and I liked the opening paragraph. About 10 pages in I thought I may have made a mistake. I was wrong, however. It is wonderful. It has the solemn tone of so many Australian novels, but you cannot help but be drawn in by the charac... moreters - and the setting. Having lived in Potts Point and spent the best times of my life in the Snowy Mountains, I loved the descriptions of place and time...they are spot on. The author thanks Meg Stewart in the credits and the homage to the late great Douglas Stewart is evident throughout the story and most welcome. The novel is about fly fishing, as I had hoped. But it is about so much more and I am really glad somebody has captured this moment of Australia in such an eloquent fashion. less

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