Questions of Travel [electronic resource]
de Kretser, Michelle
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An astonishing, radiant and deeply moving novel from one of world literature's rising stars. Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Set in Sydney, London and Colombo, and taking side-trips all over the world, Questions of Travel examines exactly that: what is it that urges us to see other countries and cultures, and what is it we gain from our fleeting observations of them? The novel's two main characters, young Australian woman Laura and young Sri Lankan man Ravi, are both in search of home - not just where it may be, but what it is. Laura is restless and unfulfilled and spends her youth travelling all over the world before wondering whether home might be right back where she started out from. She returns to Sydney and to the affair she's longed for, but eventually realises home cannot be conjured by other people - it is from within her that she will find that sense of place and belonging. Ravi flees his homeland after a terrorist attack claims his Tamil wife and daughter. He is a refugee in the widest sense of the world - fleeing not only danger in his homeland but the horror in his own heart and the memories that won't let him go. Perhaps Australia is the haven he has been searching for - if he is allowed to stay - but when he is eventually forced to decide, why is his heart telling him to take a different turn altogether? Home, heart, belonging, exile. How do we know when we are home and what does it actually mean?
Main title:
Questions of Travel [electronic resource] / Michelle de Kretser
Author:
de Kretser, Michelle, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Allen & Unwin, [date of publication not identified]
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of two other novels, The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award 2008, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (NSW Premier's Literary Awards) 2008 and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (VIC Premier's Literary Awards), the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best Book, Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
ISBN:
9781743431979
Language:
English
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BRN:
2795246
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