![]() The native lives in history and there is no suspension of knowledge, but as a tourist you do have access to wonder.'' ![]() ''But it's possible to spend a very pleasant three weeks in another country and come away with no idea of what life is really like for people who live there. ![]() ''Travel connects us to the world and brings us closer to other cultures,'' de Kretser says. ![]() It is also an intimate portrait of two individuals: Ravi, who is endangered after his wife and son are murdered in Colombo and flees on an Australian tourist visa, and Laura, a loveless young Australian who moves to London, travels compulsively, chooses men badly and returns to work for a guidebook publisher in Sydney. Questions of Travel, de Kretser's fourth novel, is a 40-year epic about the global forces that push people around the world, the accelerating changes in daily life and the technology that both connects and isolates us. She gave her impressions to her character Ravi, a Sri Lankan refugee in Sydney who says: ''Tourists see invisible things.'' ![]() She loves the dramatic weather, the smell of the harbour, the wild beauty of Waverley Cemetery with its Victorian gravestones perched above the ocean. Walking everywhere, she notices the hills and details such as the boats under tarpaulins in suburban streets. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |