Portraying the quandaries of colonial life in New Zealand through the story of one family s move from Wellington to a small rural town, this masterful novella is partially autobiographical, and parts of it were incorporated into Mansfield s acclaimed story Prelude. Though the Burnell family relocates a scant six miles from the city, the move is far from inconsequential; in fact, it causes a major disruption to their former way of life. Beneath the Burnells harmonious front are undercurrents of aggression and tragedy. A mysterious aloe plant and the slaughtering of a duck in their well-kept yard suggest that the family is concealing brutality and ignorance of another way of life that was rejected that of the Maoris, the rightful owners of the colonized land. The novella describes the author s sense of unease from belonging to the group of invaders.
Dramatizando las disyuntivas de la vida colonial en Nueva Zelanda a traves de la narracion de la mudanza de una familia desde Wellington a un pueblo rural, esta magistral novela corta es parcialmente autobiografica, y algunas partes de la obra se incorporaron en el cuento aclamado de Mansfield, Preludio. Aunque la.
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