THE CONQUISTADORES’ ARRIVAL, REIMAGINED in a playfully serious tale that darts as kaleidoscopically as a hummingbird between culture and culture and between the empires of past and present. Powerfully visual, sardonically witty. SOLID A
A beautiful love story between two men is just the beginning of this profound novel. In fact, it is a historical novel set in 1950s Melbourne. Rather than telling us the story of the two protagonists, Jay Carmichael seeks to shed light on the lives of gay men in a decade when persecution, illegality and the medicalisation of homosexuality drove homosexuals to underground or to jail. In addition, as one of the characters is of native Australian descent, racism and racial segregation are also addressed.
It is a work of an extraordinary and simple beauty.
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