Michelle de Kretser

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Writing with poignancy and mesmerizing detail, Michelle de Kretser has penned a haunting tale set against the madness of the French Revolution -- a wistful, elegantly rendered novel of unrequited love and personal triumph in a world gone tragically a...

• May-2004
• / Suspense
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Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Onl...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriousl...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the world--exploring the seductive new world of the internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by....

• Apr-2016
• / Fantasy
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“This is a gorgeous, delicately surprising piece of writing. . . . It's like spirit photography, all fuzzy outlines and unaccountable light: a snapshot of something that may or may not exist.” -- Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review...

• Mar-2018
• / Literary
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Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the Stella PrizeLonglisted for the International Dublin Literary Award“For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the...

• May-2022
• / Literary
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Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize (UK)A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, ...

• Feb-2025
• / Women's Fiction
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"Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day -- questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappe...