La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly (True history of the Kelly Gang)

En un alarde asombroso del arte del ventrílocuo, Peter Carey da al mítico bandolero australiano Ned Kelly una voz tan original y llena de pasión que parece que el mismísimo Kelly nos hable desde la ultratumba. La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly, arraigada en lo más hondo de Australia, es un canto de protesta escrito en una voz que es al mismo tiempo ruda y delicada, violenta y conmovedora. Carey da vida al Ned Kelly huérfano, Edipo, ladrón de caballos, granjero, reformista, asaltador de bancos, asesino de tres policías, y finalmente, el Robin Hood de Australia. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. --Penguin Random House website (accessed 17 May 2022)