Riders in the Chariot
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Riders in the Chariot, a novel by Australian Author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner 1973, was published in 1961 and won the Miles Franklin Award in that year.
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The novel is structured around a loosely connected group of people united by the mystic experience of the chariot described in the Book of Ezekiel. The climax is a mock crucifixion of an old Jewish refugee (one of the four main characters) in the courtyard of the factory where he works. The owner of the factory fears to interfere, and a young aborigine thrice says that he does not know the victim.
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