Bettany's Book (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Two centuries apart, two women share a name, a bloodline, and an unbreakable hunger for justice — and Tom Keneally's Bettany's Book weaves their stories into a sweeping, morally urgent epic that spans colonial Australia and modern-day Sudan. The novel chronicles the parallel lives of Jonathan Bettany, a nineteenth-century Australian sheep farmer whose wife Sarah becomes entangled in the brutal realities of convict society, and Stella Bettany, a contemporary aid worker confronting the horrors of famine and civil war in Africa. Keneally constructs a dual narrative of extraordinary ambition, drawing direct lines between the colonial exploitation of the past and the humanitarian crises of the present. Renowned for his mastery of historical scope — as demonstrated in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark — Keneally once again proves himself one of Australia's most essential literary voices. Bettany's Book is a rich, compassionate, and intellectually demanding work that interrogates themes of conscience, complicity, and the enduring cost of human suffering across generations. The question it leaves burning is a deceptively simple one: what does it truly mean to bear witness?
Author: Tom Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, Doubleday
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Two centuries apart, two women share a name, a bloodline, and an unbreakable hunger for justice — and Tom Keneally's Bettany's Book weaves their stories into a sweeping, morally urgent epic that spans colonial Australia and modern-day Sudan. The novel chronicles the parallel lives of Jonathan Bettany, a nineteenth-century Australian sheep farmer whose wife Sarah becomes entangled in the brutal realities of convict society, and Stella Bettany, a contemporary aid worker confronting the horrors of famine and civil war in Africa. Keneally constructs a dual narrative of extraordinary ambition, drawing direct lines between the colonial exploitation of the past and the humanitarian crises of the present. Renowned for his mastery of historical scope — as demonstrated in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark — Keneally once again proves himself one of Australia's most essential literary voices. Bettany's Book is a rich, compassionate, and intellectually demanding work that interrogates themes of conscience, complicity, and the enduring cost of human suffering across generations. The question it leaves burning is a deceptively simple one: what does it truly mean to bear witness?