Bøker av Dan Davin

Dan Davin, one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish–New Zealand family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound, and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of a close-knit rural community and its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton, or Marshall. The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature.

First published in 1986, these collected war stories are told in the order of the Middle East campaigns that provide their settings. One story, 'The General and the Nightingale,' gives a vivid picture of General Freyberg, the man Churchill called 'the Salamander of the British Empire'.

Dan Davin was a novelist and publisher with an attractive bohemian streak. This book is his literary memoirs. In it he provides recollections of seven of his friends, all writers: Julian Maclaren-Ross, W R Rodgers, Louis MacNeice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger.