The Hamilton Case

Informationen zum Autor Michelle de Kretser Klappentext Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia with her family in 1972. She has taught English at the University of Melbourne, as well as working as an editor and book reviewer. Her novels, The Rose Grower (1999), The Hamilton Case (2003) and The Lost Dog (2008) have been published across the world and translated into several languages. The Hamilton Case was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Encore Award and the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Australian and New Zealand fiction. She lives in Melbourne. Zusammenfassung Sam Obeysekere is a Ceylonese lawyer, a perfect product of empire. His family, which once had wealth and influence, starts to crack open as political change comes to the island, and Sam's glamorous father dies leaving gambling debts. Sam's involvement in it makes his name but sets his life on course of disappointment.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle de Kretser, Michelle DeKretser, Michelle De Kretser
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780099453796
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945379-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)