K.M. Kruimink
Autor von A Treacherous Country
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When the story begins, Gabriel is in the company of a shaggy Irishman he calls his Cannibal, en route from Hobart to a failed whaling station, which his escort wants him to buy (because in forty years the whales have been harvested almost to extinction). Gabriel has arrived from Sydney where he gambled away everything he had in exchange for some possibly useless American harpoons, only to be conned into buying a stolen horse, which is subsequently stolen from him in turn. He seems a nice young man, but gullible to a fault, and not just because he has fallen victim to skulduggery. He has journeyed across the world on a quest is to find Maryanne Maginn, transported some 25 years beforehand, to please the guardian of his lady love, and thus to win her hand.
As it turns out, he is deluded about that, and everything else as well.
Kruimink lives in the Huon Valley, and her familiarity with the Tasmanian landscape gives her prose a bleak authenticity:
Alas for Gabriel, this freedom leads him to take part in a whale hunt (which I did not enjoy reading, for the same reasons I disliked Moby Dick, but the chapter is mercifully short, which Moby Dick is not). He barely escapes with his life. His companion Cook does not, but back on dry land, in Mrs Heron's modest house, Gabriel's reflections on his experience are rather droll...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/05/15/a-treacherous-country-by-k-m-kruimink-2020-v...… (mehr)