In reality, though, the wild weather was a perfect example of the Australian predicament: extended periods of drought interrupted by extreme downpours, a pattern that has long existed on this desert continent and one that promises to become familiar to more and more people around the world as climate change kicks in.
Still, the book admirably captures the tenor of the postcolonial period: the predicament of the Asian minority, the corruption that marred Kenya's fledgling independence, and the individual tragedies that were the cost of revolution.
julian6 has finished Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child: Very fine and economical use of language and evoked the central character's turmoil superbly – his hesitant steps towards understanding the African predicament during the colonial period, his sense of family and his place within that unit versus his growing need for love and new experiences beyond his very enclosed world.
It set us thinking about the books that speak to the predicament of youthful instability, that period in which one tries to follow one's heart wherever it may lead because the alternative — settling down — conjures visions of oneself plopped in a desk chair or on a couch, literally settling down into one's increasingly flabby body, as the brain slowly collapses in on itself.
The predicament reached a critical point on March 28, when 2,000 asylum seekers entered Lampedusa within a 24-hour period.
They supported Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaigns, backed the North in the Civil War, performed slave songs to call attention to the predicament of black Americans during the postwar period, and sang in support of women's rights.
Mr. Hussain has courageously chronicled everyday events of that strife-torn period in luminous works mirroring the human predicament beyond the brutal intransigence of politics.
He also conceded that he was partly to blame for the predicament, saying his determination to convey the Labour message in the period of opposition and early years in government had made him complicit in the decline in news standards.
Volunteer households help us by taking homeless people into their homes for a period of time while we find solutions, often in the private sector, to their predicament.
If that remains the most regrettable period of his career – he was only in charge for eight months – Allardyce's current predicament at West Ham United does not lag far behind.
(His predicament is loosely based on the real experience of an Iranian traveler marooned for a much longer period in a Paris airport after the fall of the shah).
