Questions of Travel

When Laura inherits money from the aunt who raised her, she sets off to see the world -- alone, 'because two makes one a tourist.' When Ravi's family are devastated by a politically motivated atrocity, he seeks asylum in Sydney. The two meet there at a travel-guide publishing firm. She is a staff writer, living with an elderly Italian lover, and he is a website designer who wants only to make a living and forget about his past. Where do these disparate characters truly belong?

With her trademark subtlety, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the twenty-first century, they belong wherever they're able to be, home or away. She has written a masterful novel for our time replete with dazzling beauty, uncanny common sense, sharp wit, and a deep knowledge of what makes us tick.

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About the author

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of three other novels: The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case (which won the Commonwealth Prize, SE Asia and Pacific region and the Encore Prize), and The Lost Dog, which was longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prize and received Australia's 'Book of the Year' Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Gold Medal from the Australian Literary Society. She lives in Sydney.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Krester, Michelle de Krester, Michelle de Kretser
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2012
• EAN: 9781743311783
• ISBN: 978-1-74331-178-3
• No. of pages: 519
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 232 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Politics, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Adventure fiction, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls, War, combat and military adventure fiction