Synopses & Reviews
Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel, and tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. The extraordinary qualities that distinguish the later novels are here: the joy in the power of words, the sense of paradox, the elision of time and place.
About the Author
Janet Frame has written eleven novels, a three-volume autobiography, four collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. Her most recent novel, The Carpathians, won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989. She has been a Burns Scholar, a Sargeson Fellow and has won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters. She has been awarded the CBE and is an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.