Questions of travel : a novel / Michelle de Kretser.
Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013Edition: First North American editionDescription: 461 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780316219228 (hardback); 0316219223 (hardback)Subject(s): Psychological fiction | sri Lankans -- Australia -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | International travel -- Fiction | Sri Lankans -- Australia -- Fiction | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Psychological fictionDDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR9619.4.D4 | Q47 2013Awards: Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 Winner; Prime Minister's Award; Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2014 WinnerSummary: "Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendes is on the other side of the world--his humble father dead, his mother struggling, determined to succeed in computer science. Their stories alternate throughout-- culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, returning to Sydney to work for a travel guide. There she meets Ravi, a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living" -- from dust jacket.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendes is on the other side of the world--his humble father dead, his mother struggling, determined to succeed in computer science. Their stories alternate throughout-- culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, returning to Sydney to work for a travel guide. There she meets Ravi, a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living" -- from dust jacket.
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 Winner; Prime Minister's Award; Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2014 Winner
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