Synopses & Reviews
These powerfully vivid stories offer enormous pleasure, recognition and discovery. They uncover moments of innocence and shame, with shocking flashes of unpredictable violence and pain, or glints of sly humour. Here are men and women in search of connection, or equally wary of it — whether with each other or with past selves. David Malouf, like no other writer, evokes dark shadows beneath the bright sun.
Synopsis
These powerfully vivid stories from a great writer offer enormous pleasure, recognition and discovery. Ranging through the unreliable layers of family archaeology, they uncover earlier, vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, and unfinished business, illumined by shocking flashes of unpredictable violence and pain, or glints of sly humour. In the brilliant cornerstone story the stuff of dreams is both real and imagined--rumoured fields of cannabis picked in secret by migrant workers, or a nightmare encounter on a dark city street. In "Night Training" a military recruit is scarred by his own complicity in a bizarre nightly ritual. From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father missing in action, to "Sally's Story" in which a comfort girl looks for comfort of her own, here are men and women in search of connection, or equally wary of it--whether with each other or with past selves. David Malouf evokes, like no other writer, dark shadows beneath the bright sun.
About the Author
David Malouf, internationally recognized as one of Australia's finest writers, is the winner of the 2000 Lannan Literary Award, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger. Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and awarded the inaugural international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Malouf divides his time between Australia and Tuscany.