Questions of Travel

Publisher's synopsis

A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature’s rising stars.

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.

Awards

Winner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2014
Winner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW, 2014
Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2013
Winner, ALS Gold Medal, 2013
Winner, Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2013
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, Premier’s Prize, 2013
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, Fiction Prize, 2013
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Fiction Prize, 2014
Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2013
Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014
Shortlisted, Indie Awards, Fiction, 2013
Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2013
Shortlisted, Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers, 2013
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival for Literature, 2014

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Tracks

Grace

The Complete Stories

Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as A. S. Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier’s Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize’s Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Further Details

Author Michelle de Kretser

Publisher Allen & Unwin

Date of Publication 2012

ISBN 9781743317334

Category Novels