Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. 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.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of 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: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781743317334 |
| ISBN 10 | 1743317336 |
| Title | Questions of Travel |
| Author | Michelle De Kretser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Year published | 2013-07-24 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Prizes | Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2014 (Australia), Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2014 (Australia), Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2013 (Australia), Winner of Fiction Prize 2013 (Australia), Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 (Iran, Islamic Republic of), Short-listed for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2014 (Australia), Short-listed for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2014 (Australia), Short-listed for Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW 2013 (Australia), Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 (Iran, Islamic Republic of), Long-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2013 (Australia) |
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