A magnificent novel by the prize-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places, an epic tale of unsettlement, history, myth, art and love - and of a small boy lost in the Australian desert.
| Autor: | McFarlane Fiona |
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| ISBN: | 9781529389821 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Veröffentlicht: | 09.03.2023 |
| Untertitel: | 'Steinbeckian majesty' - Sunday Times |
| Schlagworte: | Australia FICTION / Literary FICTION / Small Town & Rural FICTION / Women FICTION / World Literature / Australia Narrative theme: Environmental issues Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: Sense of place c 1880 to c 1889 |
Fiona McFarlane's first novel, The Night Guest, won several prizes including the Voss Literary Prize and New South Wales Premier's Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and Miles Franklin Literary Award among others. She is also the author of a short-story collection, The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Best Australian Stories. McFarlane grew up in Sydney and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.