by Colleen McCullough · Plaza & Janés Editories Sa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401812507
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The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough, is a novel that tells the story of the Cleary family over several generations in the Australian Outback. The plot focuses on the relationship between Meggie Cleary and the priest Ralph de Bricassart, a forbidden love that will mark their lives with renunciations, pain and suffering. This edition of Plaza & Janés, published in 1985, is a reprint of the first edition and has sold more than 250,000 copies.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
