Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (9781743317334)

Description - Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

WINNER Miles Franklin Award
WINNER Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction
WINNER NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
WINNER NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW
WINNER Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction Prize
WINNER Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize
WINNER ALS Gold Medal

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.

Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories - from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself in Australia.

Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Wonderfully written, Questions of Travel is an extraordinary work of imagination - a transformative, very funny and intensely moving novel.

'A grand and intellectual work' - Sydney Morning Herald

'Impeccably written' - Weekend Australian

'A cosmopolitan novel that cares enough to say big things, grounds them in important historical moments, and takes pains to say it all well.' - Australian Book Review

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