Man who loves children

Author: Kristina Stead
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Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This novel successfully portrays a chaotic and contradictory family in Washington, D.C., USA: the husband loves to boast and spends his days playing with the children while refusing to share household chores with his wife. Arguments and even violence between the couple have become commonplace. The children's hearts are deeply wounded. The eldest daughter, Louisa, finally decides to poison her parents to end this tragic play. It profoundly reflects the crises and the crumbling fate of marriage in modern society, with exceptional artistic quality, and is hailed as "Australia's Ulysses."