Robert F Becker
Author Perth Western Australia
Robert F Becker
Location: Perth Western Australia
The waking
Robert was born in Cape Town South Africa and grew up during the height of the Apartheid years. He completed two years of conscripted military service as Lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was based for a period on the northern border of Namibia. After discharge he completed a Master’s Degree in Psychiatric Social Work and then emigrated to Australia in the early 1980’s. After extensive travels in India and Nepal he married and has five children aged from his youngest daughter born in 2002 to his eldest daughter born in 1988.
Robert founded the Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre which he co-directs with his wife Mandy (www.kookaburracreek.com). He works as a Social Worker in the field of Child Protection and now lives near the beach south of Perth. His semi-biographical first novel deals with the story of three generations of his family. Told through the eyes of his mother the narrative starts with her parents’ life in Europe in 1914 then moves to South Africa where she raises a family and finally follows her son’s story to Australia. It deals with the universal themes of birth, love and death.
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The dreaming
2010 - present
2010 - present
The second book The Magic Land deals with dreaming. Which of us are in a dream and which are not? How can we be certain? This narrative takes a headlong dive into a dreaming that represents a different way of looking at the world. The clash of values portrayed through the intense drama of the plot, illustrates the fact that alternate realiteis exist. The Aboriginal community of Kalumburu is the focus of this book through their Spirit guardians the Wanjina. This thread weaves through the three sections of the book propelling the reader towards the gripping climax. There are lessons learned along the way, brought about through loss and grief but in conclusion there is reconciliation, of a kind.
Light and darkness, the constant interplay. One looks out upon the other and where they meet neither holds exclusive sway. Who’s to say if one is right and one is wrong? It depends on which side of the great divide we find ourselves, on which side we consider we belong.
The spirit
The Third book, The Last Firefly deals with spirit. The last flicker of a firefly leads an aging artist to the verge of despair before his world is unexpectedly renewed through the discovery of a long lost feeling for a woman he knew only briefly, forty years before.
Work in Progress.......
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