The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
A shy, brilliant young lieutenant and amateur astronomer posted to an early British settlement in Australia forms an intense, language-based friendship with a local Indigenous woman; through learning her words and ways he gains a human, intimate perspective on a people the colony views as other. Torn between scientific curiosity, personal attachment and the demands of a brutal colonial administration, he faces moral choices that expose the costs of empire, the limits of communication, and the fragility of compassion in a hostile new world.
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- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- Australian
- Length
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- Pages
- 200-250 pages
- Original Language
- English
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