![]() In general they interact peacefully, but when provoked, ethnic slurs fly. In their Sydney neighborhood, they interact with a variety of individuals with other backgrounds and faiths: Chinese, Italian, Jewish, and descendants of Indigenous Australians. ![]() The major figures cherish their Irish traditions and lifestyles, including adherence to a human but positive Roman Catholic faith. ![]() Some make cameo appearances while others are the focus of subplots.įor a book written 70 years ago, Harp is unusual in its full and sensitive depiction of ethnic diversity. It contains a big cast of characters, each unique and finely drawn. While following one family through several generations, Park brings in the stories of their friends and neighbors. Its themes include life and death, coming of age and aging, love and loss and much more. ![]() Harp in the South is a big book, not only in size, but in conception and scope. The first volume takes place in rural New South Wales and the next two follow a couple who married there and moved to the working-class slums of Sydney, and the lives of their children. Ruth Park is an excellent, old-fashion storyteller who wrote an Australian classic in the late 1940s. First published in 1948.Ī deservedly popular Australian trilogy about working-class Australian life in the mid-twentieth century. Penguin Books Australia (1987), Paperback, 684 pages. ![]() Including her Missus, Harp in the South AND Poor Man’s Orange. ![]()
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