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Questions of Travel
Michelle de Kretser
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Description for Questions of Travel
Paperback. A novel of dazzling virtuosity and luminous intelligence that explores our urge to leave home, by a writer previously longlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes whose prose can only be described as 'rich, luxuriant, intense, and gorgeous.' (Anita Desai) Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events.
An enthralling array of people, places and stories surround these superbly drawn characters - from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself.
Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Questions of Travel is infused with wit, imagination, uncanny common sense and a deep understanding of what makes us tick.
Product Details
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781743316641
SKU
V9781743316641
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Michelle de Kretser
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of three other novels: The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case (which won the Commonwealth Prize, SE Asia and Pacific region and the Encore Prize), and The Lost Dog, which was longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prize and received Australia's 'Book of the Year' Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Gold Medal from the Australian Literary Society. She lives in Sydney.
Reviews for Questions of Travel
This is a novel unlike any other I have read... It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book.
A.S. Byatt
The Guardian
Ambitious and entertaining... Questions of Travel should ensure her place as a serious international novelist of the first rank.
The Economist
Sweeping and virtuosic... An outstanding novel.
Stephanie Cross
Daily Mail
Novel by novel, the Sri Lankan-born Australian has emerged as one of the most fiercely intelligent voices in fiction today. This new work, her most ambitious yet, makes globalisation and its discontents the focus of a multi-faceted story that unites grandeur and intimacy.
Boyd Tonkin
The Independent
An artful meditation on movement and migration.
The Times Literary Supplement
Man Booker-longlisted de Kretser's precisely written novel is concerned with tourists, refugees and the complexities of immigration... a nuanced and ambivalent look at the crassness of tourism.
The Sunday Times
This truly is a book for our times.
Irish Times
A.S. Byatt
The Guardian
Ambitious and entertaining... Questions of Travel should ensure her place as a serious international novelist of the first rank.
The Economist
Sweeping and virtuosic... An outstanding novel.
Stephanie Cross
Daily Mail
Novel by novel, the Sri Lankan-born Australian has emerged as one of the most fiercely intelligent voices in fiction today. This new work, her most ambitious yet, makes globalisation and its discontents the focus of a multi-faceted story that unites grandeur and intimacy.
Boyd Tonkin
The Independent
An artful meditation on movement and migration.
The Times Literary Supplement
Man Booker-longlisted de Kretser's precisely written novel is concerned with tourists, refugees and the complexities of immigration... a nuanced and ambivalent look at the crassness of tourism.
The Sunday Times
This truly is a book for our times.
Irish Times