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Zusatztext Something approaching an old-fashioned historical yarn spliced with Cronenbergian body horror . . . The commonplace rubbing shoulders with the supernatural adds to the book's considerations of mourning and absence a vivid hue . . . a genuine tension and sense of dread. Informationen zum Autor Jane Rawson is the author of A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists; a novella, Formaldehyde; and a non-fiction book, T he Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change . From the Wreck was the first novel to be nominated for both Australia's Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, which it won. Jane lives in Tasmania and works as a bureaucrat. Klappentext 'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented . . . Jane Rawson's writing is mysterious, chilling and tender. The book is a sort of miracle.' Lian Hearn 'A bravura novel of history with an edge . . . Something truly unique and disquieting . . . What Rawson has ingeniously forged with From The Wreck is something approaching an old-fashioned historical yarn spliced with Cronenbergian body horror . . . genuine tension and sense of dread.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Rawson . . . has the rare talent of stretching our capacity to believe, while at the same time making us feel genuinely for the characters . . . I was reminded of the gentle quality of Steven Spielberg's ET . . . An intriguing tale whose humanity lingers warm long after the reading.' Australian Zusammenfassung The first novel to be nominated for both Australias leading SF Prize (the Aurealis, which it won) and for its leading literary award (the Miles Franklin), &i>From the Wreck&/i> is a novel of strange and wonderful imagination, imbued with beauty and feeling, existential loneliness and a deep awareness of the interdependence of all life....
