GAIL JONES

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology.

On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water But just as Circular Quay resonates with Australia´s past, each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere...

We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Each is enthralled in some way to the work of Vladimir Nabokov, and each is finding their way in deep winter in a haunted city. A moment of devastating violence shatters the group, and changes the direction of everyone's story. Brave and brilliant, A Guide to Berlin traces the strength and fragility of our connections through biographies and secrets.

This is a story that can only be told in a whisper...In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keane is discovered murdered. Through this exquisite story of a young girl's survival against the odds, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a skill that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels "Dreams of Speaking" and "Sixty Lights".

El don de Jones para producir una prosa luminosa y su destreza en las descripciones son innegables. The Guardian En 1860, con sólo ocho y diez años, Lucy Strange y su hermano Thomas se quedan huérfanos. Su tio, el extravagante e irreverente Neville, se hace cargo de ellos y se los lleva a Londres, en donde empezaran una vida alejada del aroma y el color de la India, lugar en el que habian vivido hasta entonces y donde su madre se habia topado con la muerte y su padre le habia buscado enconadamente hasta conseguir salir a su nefasto encuentro. Todas estas vivencias quedan grabadas en la mente de la pequeña Lucy y cuando crece descubre que es posible plasmar por fin las imagenes que siempre habia alojado en se cabeza y que guardaba en su cuaderno de Cosas especiales vistas, captar la luz y convertirla en memoria y a ello se dedicara con pasion de chiquilla enamorada. La memoria de la luz es la cautivadora biografia de una joven moderna e independiente de la era victoriana, narrada a traves de un complejo entramado de capas tejido con pulso firme y elegante. Su universo es un conjunto de imagenes fijas, que un dia, impresas en papel albuminado, dejara tras de si como conmovedores recuerdos de una vida extraordinaria.

Classic novel by Gayl Jones exploring trauma, memory, and generational legacy through powerful prose.