Gözetleme Kulesi

After their father's death, Laura and Clare first live with their irresponsible mother for a while, and then come under the "protection" of Felix, whom Laura is forced to marry out of desperation. When the husband's "eccentricities", which seem relatively harmless at first, begin to reveal his evil, sick and irrational inner world, it is too late. The two young women find themselves in the middle of an anxious and dangerous life, hanging by a thread from the man's unstable mental state.

In The Watchtower, Elizabeth Harrower portrays, above all, how people can get trapped in situations that seem hopeless to others. She depicts how mental disorders, even if not contagious, can intimidate and render helpless those in their immediate circle. It reveals the difficulties of holding on to both logic, emotions and conscience in a microworld where reason has lost its authority, and despite all this, it conveys the message that there is still a way out and the only way to reach it is to break inertia.

Harrower's subtle style that avoids ostentation, the success of the character descriptions and the depth of the psychological analyses place this novel among the indispensables of modern Australian literature.
(From the Promotion Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 256

Year of Publication: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publishing House: Metis Publishing

Year of First Publication: 2016

Number of Pages: 256

Language: Turkish