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The Great World

Name: The Great World
Author: David Malouf
ISBN: 9780679748366

by David Malouf

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Overview

By the author of 'Remembering Babylon', 'The Great World' is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness.

Synopsis

By the author of 'Remembering Babylon', 'The Great World' is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness.

Publishers Weekly

. Australian Malouf's study of the intense and uneasy relationship between two men from the Depression to World War II. (Oct.)

About the Author, David Malouf

David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger. Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

. Australian Malouf's study of the intense and uneasy relationship between two men from the Depression to World War II. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Will American readers be interested in slices of Australian life over the last 70 years? Will they be enthralled by two Aussies who meet in a Japanese POW camp? Will they be at all taken by a novel of an old war while a new one rages? Probably not, though they should be. Malouf, who is being touted as the successor to the great Patrick White, has written a wonderfully constructed, beautifully phrased novel that transcends its geography and its time to give us the dramatic interactions between human beings and history. The plot hangs on the friendship between Digger Keen and Vic Curran, representatives of the working class who are altered by war and their country's development. The writing is powerful, engaging, dynamic. This should not be missed.-- Vincent D. Balitas, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.

Ian Buruma

Superb...Malouf's perceptions are deep and his use of language, that marvelously rich Australian language, is quite powerful. -- The New York Review of Books