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Questions of travel : a novel / Michelle de Kretser.

By: Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.Edition: First North American editionDescription: 461 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780316219228 (hardback)
  • 0316219223 (hardback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.4.D4 Q47 2013
Awards:
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 Winner; Prime Minister's Award; Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2014 Winner
Summary: "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.
List(s) this item appears in: JSNWL Book Club
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 823.4 DEK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL JSNWL Book Club - September 2018 67419

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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