Awards

• Short-listed for Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2003
• Shortlisted for Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2003.

Overview

The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of its tether. Sam Obeysekere - 'obey' by name and by nature - is a Ceylonese lawyer, a perfect product of empire. His family once had wealth and influence but starts to crack open as political change comes to the island, and Sam's glamorous father dies leaving gambling debts. And at the heart of the novel is the Hamilton case, a murder scandal that shakes the upper echelons of island society. Sam's involvement in it makes his name but sets his life on course for disappointment.

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A novel so delicious that you have to keep stopping as you read, for fear of finishing too soon -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph * A bewitching tale...an utterly captivating blend of intellectual muscle and story-telling magic * Independent * Reminiscent of The Remains of the Day. De Kretser has given us the classic whodunnit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic literary novel * Vogue * Haunting, lush and delicately nuanced * Observer * Rewarding, thought-provoking, witty and often disconcerting, the novel takes the reader into a world of transformations - conjuring a fiction which is tantalizingly vivid * Times Literary Supplement *

Praise for The Rose Grower : <br> Beautifully written, full of wit and pathos and evocative images... Michelle de Kretser's final pages are a triumph, quietly moving and with only one victor: a deep red rose. -- Guardian <br> The Rose Grower is much more than a love story. It's an intelligent novel that breathes brilliant life into a pivotal period in Western history. -- Boston Globe

Rewarding, thought-provoking, witty and often disconcerting, the novel takes the reader into a world of transformations - conjuring a fiction which is tantalizingly vivid * Times Literary Supplement * Haunting, lush and delicately nuanced * Observer * Reminiscent of The Remains of the Day. De Kretser has given us the classic whodunnit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic literary novel * Vogue * A bewitching tale...an utterly captivating blend of intellectual muscle and story-telling magic * Independent * A novel so delicious that you have to keep stopping as you read, for fear of finishing too soon -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *

A novel so delicious that you have to keep stopping as you read, for fear of finishing too soon -- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph A bewitching tale...an utterly captivating blend of intellectual muscle and story-telling magic Independent Reminiscent of The Remains of the Day. De Kretser has given us the classic whodunnit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic literary novel Vogue Haunting, lush and delicately nuanced Observer Rewarding, thought-provoking, witty and often disconcerting, the novel takes the reader into a world of transformations - conjuring a fiction which is tantalizingly vivid Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

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.

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