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Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism. Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier…

1850-е годы. Далёкие земли Тасмании объяты пожаром колонизации. Последние из свирепых племён, так долго сражавшихся с белыми, на грани вымирания. Несчастная сирота Матинна оказывается в семье Джейн и Джона Франклин. Супруги уверены, что им удастся сделать из дикарки настоящую леди – строгая дисциплина, несомненно, должна помочь им. А тем временем Чарльз Диккенс теряет голову от молоденькой актрисы. И ни девять детей, ни жена – ничто не может помешать писателю отдаться новому чувству. Отныне желание правит жизнями этих людей. И только время покажет, как далеко оно может завести.

To powieść o pożądaniu i zawiera dwie historie, które łączą się ze sobą i obie są oparte na faktach.Wspaniała i poruszająca opowieść o ambicji, pożądaniu i tęsknocie, które czynią nas ludźmi – pióra Richarda Flanagana, laureata Nagrody Bookera. Jest rok 1841. W odległej kolonii karnej na Ziemi Van Diemena bosa aborygenka pozuje do portretu w sukni z czerwonego jedwabiu. Ma na imię Mathinna i jest przybraną córką gubernatora wyspy, Sir Johna Franklina oraz jego żony, Lady Jane. Jest też obiektem cywilizacyjnego eksperymentu, który ma wykazać, czy wiedza, chrześcijaństwo i rozum mogą być narzucone barbarzyństwu, instynktowi oraz pożądaniu.…

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan’s Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most infamous episodes in human history: the colonization of Tasmania. In 1841, Sir John Franklin and his wife, Lady Jane, move to the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania. There Lady Jane falls in love with a lively aboriginal girl, Mathinna, whom she adopts and makes the subject of a grand experiment in civilization—one that…

Richard Flanagan In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl wearing a red silk dress sits for her portrait. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization - one that will determine whether science, Christianity and reason can be imposed in place of savagery, impulse and desire. A quarter of a century passes. Somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared, along with his crew and two ships, on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of…

Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism. Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier…