Strandloper - Alan Garner

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Résumé :
William Buckley is chosen as a Cheshire village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure - in the year 1790. But the local landowner discovers the celebrations in the church and William is arrested and soon transported to New Holland. This powerful tale traces his life there, and how he becomes Murrangurk, law-giver and healer and holy man of the Aboriginal world. There is a beautiful symmetry between ancient English customs and aboriginal ones... it shines with lyrical candour Penny Perrick, )The Times. The Voice that Thunders(, a collection of essays is also published this month.

Biographie:
Alan Garner was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1934 and grew up in Alderly Edge, where his father's family had lived for more than three hundred years. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Magdelen College, Oxford, after which he began writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, at the age of twenty-two. He is renowned as one of Britain's outstanding writers for young adults and has won many prizes for his writing. In 2001 he was awarded the OBE for services to literature.