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Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
Three girls walked into the rock. Nobody came back.
For you if
you want to feel the Australian landscape as something ancient and indifferent to the humans who think they own it
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On Valentine's Day 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls go on a picnic to Hanging Rock in Victoria. Three girls and a teacher walk into the rock and are never seen again. Lindsay writes this as if it actually happened — no explanation, no resolution, no comfort. The mystery is the point. The rock is ancient, volcanic, indifferent to the colonial project that has tried to turn it into a picnic spot. The most haunting Australian novel ever written and the one that understands most clearly that the land does not belong to the people who put fences around it.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Australia
- Voice
- Written by a Australia author
- Themes
- Beautiful Wreckage
