After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his...
Vintage Castro, a wonderfully wrought performance, intrigue, romance, comedy, deception - and a melancholy sadness which courts, but never surrenders to. despair. It takes the form of three interwoven novellas, the first centred on an ageing forger, ...
Brian Castro's new novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War. ...
"Street to Street" is one of Brian Castro's best books yet, a comic - tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth - century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a command...
Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its rec...