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Janet Frames autobiographischer Roman erzählt die Lebensgeschichte einer der eigenwilligsten Autorinnen der Weltliteratur. Die junge Janet Frame wächst unter ärmlichen und tragischen Umstanden an der Küste Neuseelands auf: ihr Bruder erkrankt an Epilepsie, und ihre beiden Schwestern ertrinken bei Badeausflügen. Nach einem Selbstmordversuch in die Psychiatrie eingeliefert, rettet die junge Autorin nur wenige Tage vor einer geplanten Hirnoperati...

Janet Frames erster Roman von 1957, der ihren literarischen Ruhm begründete und von den Heimsuchungen einer neuseeländischen Eisenbahnarbeiter-Familie erzählt, wird nach dem großen Erfolg ihres nachgelassenen Romans „Dem neuen Sommer entgegen" in einer überarbeiteten Übersetzung neu vorgelegt. Die Familie des Eisenbahners Bob Withers in der Kleinstadt Waimaru wird von Unglück und Krankheit geplagt: Eine Tochter, Francie, stirbt durch einen tra...

Janet Frame is the greatest New Zealand writer. She is utterly herself. Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking' Eleanor CattonOwls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills, Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy, Chicks, the baby of the family, and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imagination condemns her to a life in instit...

Ancor più di Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame è prigioniera della sua biografia", scrive Hilary Mantel nell'introduzione a questo volume. La grande scrittrice neozelandese trascorse otto anni della sua vita in vari ospedali psichiatrici e fu sottoposta a più di duecento elettroshock, "ognuno pari per intensità di paura a un'esecuzione capitale". La sua intera opera è attraversata da cima a fondo dal ricordo di questo doloroso capitolo della sua esi...

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Compiled and edited by Carole Ferrier, a collection of extracts from the fiction, poetry and autobiography of this New Zealand writer, the author of AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and other works.

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In this highly inventive novel, reality, fiction and dreams are woven together as Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction.

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In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame's first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country's most prestigious honors. The procedure was cancelled, and Frame would go on to become one of the seminal authors of contemporary New Zealand literature. During her time at the MacDowell artist's colony in New Hampshire, Fram...

Amy e Bob Withers vivono in una baracca fatiscente nella piccola città neozelandese di Weimaru e, nella grave depressione economica degli anni Trenta, riescono a malapena a sfamare i loro quattro bambini. Francie, la maggiore, a dodici anni è costretta a lasciare la scuola con la prospettiva di un misero impiego nel locale lanificio. Teresa, detta Chicks, Pulcino, è la più piccola e trotterella sporca dietro i fratelli, in perenne ricerca di u...

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The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories. First published in 1951, those stories were written while Frame was confined in a mental hospit...

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are here published for the first time in Between My Father and the King.The piece 'Gorse is Not People' caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or oth...

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The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her ...

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First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post-war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and mad...