- Taschenbuch: 151 Seiten
- Verlag: Signature (16. September 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0340743565
- ISBN-13: 978-0340743560
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 13 x 1,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 981.926 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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*Starred Review* Gr. 9-12. Set in a small northwest Australian coastal town, this WWII story is about friends and enemies close to home. It's also about love and family heartaches and discovering personal courage and betrayal. After the war, Hartley Penrose tells his story, looking back to 1938 when he was 16, and he and his sister, Alice, were best friends with Mitsi Sennosuke, who was born of Japanese Parents and raised in Australia. With a big cast and an action-filled plot, Disher creates a vital, physical sense of the place as well as the secrets of the community. Even before the war, the official and personal racism is clear, toward "Japs" and also toward Aborigines, who are looked on as black "impurities" in the way of the white immigrant settlers. The characters are drawn without sentimentality. Mitsi is angry as well as loving; submissive at home, raucous with her friends. For a brief, rapturous period, Hartley and Mitsi are lovers, but then he's torn between loyalties. Readers will recognize the political parallels with the U.S., as well as the personal truth of how feelings can change from friendship and love to hate and indifference--and maybe back again. Hazel Rochman
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Grade 9 Up-Winner of a young adult literature prize in Australia, this novel tackles mature themes of love and prejudice against the backdrop of World War II. Its circular structure begins and ends in 1946 as Hart is waiting for Mitsy, the young Japanese-Australian woman he loves, to return to him following the war. As he backtracks and describes their life in the small coastal town of Broome on the eve of and during the early years of the war, readers grow to understand how complicated Hart's life is. Mitsy is his sister's best friend and the daughter of one of his pearling-master father's divers; despite the ups and downs in their relationship, her family remains closely connected to his even as they experience loss, racism, and internment. Notable for its vivid sense of place, its complex characters, and an abundance of action, this book will be most appreciated by readers familiar with history, who will notice the many similarities between the way that some people in the United States and Australia thought of and treated their native peoples, and in the treatment of the Japanese during the war.
Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
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Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
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In the Register of Aliens the Sennosukes were listed as Imazaki, Sadako, and Mitsu, but those names were too foreign to our ears, and so Imazaki was soon corrupted to "Zeke" and "Mitsu" to Mitsy-although Sadako, Mitsy's mother, was only called Sadako, for some reason. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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In the Register of Aliens the Sennosukes were listed as Imazaki, Sadako, and Mitsu, but those names were too foreign to our ears, and so Imazaki was soon corrupted to "Zeke" and "Mitsu" to Mitsy-although Sadako, Mitsy's mother, was only called Sadako, for some reason. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Like SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS for teenagers
22. Mai 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is first and foremost a love story in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet featuring star-crossed lovers seeking happiness in the face of great odds. And it's a good, juicy, romantic love story at that.
But it's also fascinating to hear about World War II from such an unfamiliar perspective. I didn't know that racial tensions were high in Australia at the time, just as they were here.
Gary Disher holds a mirror to our own feelings as people, and our own experiences as a country.
But it's also fascinating to hear about World War II from such an unfamiliar perspective. I didn't know that racial tensions were high in Australia at the time, just as they were here.
Gary Disher holds a mirror to our own feelings as people, and our own experiences as a country.
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Australia's Pearl Harbour
21. April 2001
Format:CD-ROM
The Divine Wind tells the story of Australia's own Pearl Harbour, namely the bombing of Broome in World War Two. The cast of characters is ripe for a dramatic climax - and Disher, better known for his crime thrillers,underplays it nicely. Take an established Japanese pearling community, who have lived in Australia longer than most regional town residents in the 1930s, Aboriginal stockmen, young men preparing themselves for love or war, young women struggling with tradition, and a town on the doorstep of the war 's south-east Asian front, and mix well. The result is an engaging tale designed for teenage readers and, as often the case, refreshing for adults looking for simplicity and substance.
The story starts methodically enough, portraying the young days of Hartley and his sister Alice, and their friends Mitsy and Jamie. The intensity of their destinies builds like the war itself until the final third of the book which begins: "It was an odd, edgy time. Chance was in the air in late 1941. All the world was breathless, and Broome was wound as tight as a spring."
The tension is palpable on many fronts - sexually, militarily, racially, communally and within Hartley's own family. Indeed, the differences between his seagoing father and Anglo-indoors mother could almost portray a fundamental tension in Australian society between nature and culture. One can read a lot into this simple story because it has these many rich, diverse layers - no wonder it is studied in the formative educational years.
Finally, the "divine wind" arrives, the winds of change, flight, pain, pleasure, heroism, cowardice, vocation and intertwined traditions. My favourite image from this book is the full-moon Festival of the Lanterns, in which Mitsy and her mother Sadako cast forth a model boat loaded with a miniature lantern, flower petals and bundled food, to honour their dead father and husband, Zeke: "And he glided, glided, glided, all the way out through Entrance Point, helped by Mitsy and Sadako, who beat tiny hammers against tiny bells and sang him sweetly to heaven."
Garry Disher has completed a wonderful portrayal of Broome at a pivotal time in the maturing of a nation and its multicultural community.
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Great Novel
17. Januar 2002
Format:CD-ROM
The setting of The Divine Wind is the town of Broome, Australia during to World War Two. The plot follows the life of Hartley, the son of a pearling master, his love for Mitsy, a Japanese woman and his mixed feelings about the circumstances.
An important strength of the novel is that everything is portrayed so realistically. At one point I even thought that it was a true story because of the detail that everything was described in; it seemed to have been written by someone who really had experienced it all.
The town of Broome is described in detail, everything from the style of the houses to the way the harbour smelled. I found The Divine Wind different from other novels I have read because it includes the good and the bad in everything, rather than forcing things, people or events to be simply either good or bad.
The characters definitely weren't stereotypes, and none of the main characters were "goodies" or "baddies". They were all shown as imperfect people who reacted in human ways to everyhting that happened. Even the main character, Hartley, had so many different facets to his personality, which were revealed over time.
The theme of prejudice was important to this novel, because although Hartley loved Mitsy, there were times when he almost hated her "Japaneseness". Prejudice against the aborigines was also explored.
The plot of The Divine Wind was a little unclear, and it did not seem to have a distinct storyline. However, this also made the novel more realistic, by avoiding excessive dramticism and adding unnecessary twists or suspense just for the sake of entertainment.
This is a beautifully written novel, but it may not satisfy readers who are looking for thrilling and exciting war plots. I recommend this to everyone else.
An important strength of the novel is that everything is portrayed so realistically. At one point I even thought that it was a true story because of the detail that everything was described in; it seemed to have been written by someone who really had experienced it all.
The town of Broome is described in detail, everything from the style of the houses to the way the harbour smelled. I found The Divine Wind different from other novels I have read because it includes the good and the bad in everything, rather than forcing things, people or events to be simply either good or bad.
The characters definitely weren't stereotypes, and none of the main characters were "goodies" or "baddies". They were all shown as imperfect people who reacted in human ways to everyhting that happened. Even the main character, Hartley, had so many different facets to his personality, which were revealed over time.
The theme of prejudice was important to this novel, because although Hartley loved Mitsy, there were times when he almost hated her "Japaneseness". Prejudice against the aborigines was also explored.
The plot of The Divine Wind was a little unclear, and it did not seem to have a distinct storyline. However, this also made the novel more realistic, by avoiding excessive dramticism and adding unnecessary twists or suspense just for the sake of entertainment.
This is a beautifully written novel, but it may not satisfy readers who are looking for thrilling and exciting war plots. I recommend this to everyone else.
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