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Driven by Choy’s iconoclastic voice, THE EXILES is about the enduring love for one’s home, the fragility of historical record and remembrance, and the power of film to intervene and bear witness. Winner of the Sundance 2022 Grand Jury Prize for U.S Documentary, THE EXILES brings modern history and the struggle for democracy to human scale by considering the individual costs of a life ...
25. Aug. 2020 · The Exiles. by Christina Baker Kline. Christina Baker Kline’s latest novel, THE EXILES, transports readers to 19th-century Australia and the perilous journey to get there. Twenty-one-year-old Evangeline, the daughter of a country parson, is employed as governess to the Whitstone children in the tony London neighborhood of St. John’s Wood.
A powerful, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of four women’s lives—three English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl—in nineteenth-century Australia. Christina Baker Kline has established herself as a novelist who plumbs noteworthy but little-known facets of the past, and The ...
The Exiles can't be described as a happy story, but it is inspiring and thought-provoking. Exploring historical events that may be unknown to some readers, Kline offers a unique look at the treatment of those outside of the strict rules and regulations of 19th-century British society. Furthermore, the three points of view tell three distinct stories that intertwine to create a larger picture ...
6. Juli 2021 · The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a ...
The Exiles quickly pulls you in as Christina Baker Kline takes the reader on a gruelling, moving, need-to-read journey. British colonization, convict deportation, and the takeover of indigenous land in Australia and Tasmania lay the groundwork for the horrendous events that will befall Evangeline, Hazel and Mathinna.
The Exiles. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, Plex. Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989, Choy began documenting three leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests who had escaped to ...
