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Cargando... The People's Trainpor Thomas Keneally
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Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protege of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via Japan. But Brisbane in 1911 turns out not to be quite the workers' paradise he was expecting, or the bickering local Russian emigres a model of brotherhood. As Artem helps organise a strike and gets dangerously entangled in the death of another exile, he discovers that corruption, repression and injustice are almost as prevalent in Brisbane as at home. Yet he finds fellow spirits in a fiery old suffragette and a distractingly attractive married woman, who undermines his belief that a revolutionary cannot spare the time for relationships. When the revolution dawns and he returns to Russia, will his ideals hold true? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I found it a little difficult to become engrossed in the story initially, but warmed to the characters and the story telling as I read on.
Keneally avoids the use of inverted commas for speech, which jars a little at first, and seems contrived.
The descriptions of an activits life in Brisbane in the first decade of the 20th century is interesting and well told. But events in the Russian revolution seem to lack 'story' and appear almost as a cavalcade of events - which are better related in other books.
Good, but no cigar. Read Jan 2013. ( )