Captivity Captive
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Price clipped
In the remote Australian bush of the late nineteenth century, three siblings are found brutally murdered — and the mystery of who killed them, and why, reverberates through a tight-knit rural community like a dark and unstoppable tide. Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall is a masterwork of psychological fiction, narrated by an aged father who has spent a lifetime guarding the terrible secret surrounding his children's deaths, weaving memory, guilt, and silence into a haunting confession that refuses easy resolution. Hall, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists and a two-time Miles Franklin Award winner, constructs his narrative with a poet's precision and a storyteller's instinct for dread — sentences that coil and tighten, an atmosphere suffused with repression, patriarchal authority, and the violent undercurrents of colonial life. Captivity Captive is not merely a crime narrative but a profound meditation on power, family, and the stories communities tell themselves to survive; by the final page, the reader is left to reckon with whether the truth was ever truly meant to be known.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Price clipped
In the remote Australian bush of the late nineteenth century, three siblings are found brutally murdered — and the mystery of who killed them, and why, reverberates through a tight-knit rural community like a dark and unstoppable tide. Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall is a masterwork of psychological fiction, narrated by an aged father who has spent a lifetime guarding the terrible secret surrounding his children's deaths, weaving memory, guilt, and silence into a haunting confession that refuses easy resolution. Hall, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists and a two-time Miles Franklin Award winner, constructs his narrative with a poet's precision and a storyteller's instinct for dread — sentences that coil and tighten, an atmosphere suffused with repression, patriarchal authority, and the violent undercurrents of colonial life. Captivity Captive is not merely a crime narrative but a profound meditation on power, family, and the stories communities tell themselves to survive; by the final page, the reader is left to reckon with whether the truth was ever truly meant to be known.