Product Description

This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #503244 in Books
• Published on: 1985-04-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

Sunday Herald Tribune
Owls Do Cry glows with the inner light of [Frame's] human awareness - a cool flame that neither cauterizes nor heals but in some mystic ways purifies, substituting an essential beauty for superficial pain and squalor.

New Leader
Occasionally one comes upon a book that vibrates fundamental nerves.... Such a novel is Owls Do Cry. It is significant not only for its technical nuances but for its conveyance of heartbreak. Poetical, symbolical, very often tangential in her account, as if she were too aware of certain passions to do anything but glance away from them, Miss Frame has fashioned an impressive first novel.

Detroit News
Not since Katherine Mansfield has a writer with the talent of Janet Frame come out of New Zealand. . . . She writes in a lyrical flow of words which often come out with the rare beauty of poetry.