Hugo Charteris Bücher
Hugo Charteris war ein schottischer Romanautor, dessen Werke sich oft mit den Komplexitäten menschlicher Beziehungen und gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen auseinandersetzen. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfe Beobachtungen der menschlichen Natur und tiefen Einblick in die Psychologie der Charaktere aus. Charteris verwebt meisterhaft Spannung und Witz, um Themen wie Liebe, Verrat und die Suche nach Identität zu erforschen. Seine Romane sind wertvolle literarische Beiträge, die den Lesern fesselnde und zum Nachdenken anregende Erzählungen bieten.
This harrowing story of a man lost in his times, bewildered and anguished by both war and love, is a masterful portrayal of the human psyche at odds with itself.
Pictures on the Wall
- 264 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Picnic at Porokorro
- 262 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
The Tide Is Right
- 145 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
This remarkable novel, suppressed in 1957 and published by Dalkey Archive for the first time, is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant, aristocratic Scottish family in the 1950s. As the family prepares for its annual Christmas dance, old rivalries and tensions flare as John Harling arrives to visit his sister Mary, who has married Duncan Mackean, next in line to inherit the estate left by Colin Mackean, dead two years now, but very much alive in the memory of the current family, presided over by Alan Mackean and his wife Augustine ("Tin"). By the end of this nerve-racking day, John tells his sister that "this life, which you lead here, is incestuous" and that her husband Duncan "is in love with things he should have left--long ago. Soil, place, family, the past--roots... One must have courage to travel light today." That night, Duncan and Alan go out shooting; only one returns alive.
