PRATELEIRA EUNICE 1 LIVRO 23

At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scottish relatives quickly realize that he has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with.

Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, the sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers to her dismay that he frightens and repels her. Offered no choice, she marries him and is whisked at once across a wild, uninhabited countryside to Alexander's own town, named Kinross after himself. In the crags above it lies the world's richest gold mine.(...)

Alexander Kinross -un escocés que ha enterrado sus humildes orígenes tras amasar una enorme fortuna en Estados Unidos y Australia- pide la mano de la joven Elizabeth Drummond. Con apenas dieciséis años, ésta se ve obligada a dejar su Escocia natal para casarse con un completo desconocido. Kinross no logra que Elizabeth sea feliz en su matrimonio. La tensión entre los miembros de la pareja es creciente: la joven desprecia y teme a Kinross, que no oculta su relación extramatrimonial con otra mujer. Elizabeth intentará encontrar su lugar en esas extrañas tierras.

I was so disappointed in the ending because I felt it was inconsistent with the things McCullough had already told me about Alexander Kinross. She is a good writer, who draws you into her plots and characters, and I enjoyed the book while I was reading it...until the end. I keep hoping she will thrill me with another "Thorn Birds" but I fear that is not ever going to happen. ( )

Bel romanzo, una storia appassionante e i personaggi sono descritti molto bene. L'ambientazione è favolosa e ben dettagliata anche per gli aspetti "minerari".
Peccato per alcune forzature per il personaggio Nell, trovo molto difficile che a nove mesi una bambina parli come un libro stampato, a tre anni faccia diagnosi cliniche e a sei sia un' eccellente teologa. Davvero difficile da credere. Lo stesso dicasi per la considerazione storica riguardante l'Italia: Sostenere che nel 1884, l' Italia era ancora divisa in " stati e staterelli" è segno di ignoranza del contesto storico. ( )

boring, with an ending that seems unlikely. the characters are interesting, but not one of them is worth rooting for. ( )