{"product_id":"2026200018515-secondhand-captivity-captive","title":"Captivity Captive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Price clipped\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nHall, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736428253403,"sku":"2026200018515-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e443827d-6008-4459-95eb-1071cd505156.png?v=1792122971","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018515-secondhand-captivity-captive","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}