The Life to Come

Awards:   Short-listed for Kibble Literary Prize 2018 (Australia) Short-listed for Stella Prize 2018 (Australia) Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Fiction 2018 (Australia) Winner of Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2019 (Australia) Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 (Australia)
Author:   Michelle de Kretser
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781760875046


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for Kibble Literary Prize 2018 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Stella Prize 2018 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Fiction 2018 (Australia)
  • Winner of Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2019 (Australia)
  • Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 (Australia)

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Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Award 'I so much admire Michelle de Kretser's formidable technique - her characters feel alive, and she can create a sweeping narrative which encompasses years, and yet still retain the sharp, almost hallucinatory detail.' Hilary Mantel 'Michelle de Kretser knows how to construct a gripping story. She writes quickly and lightly of wonderful and terrible things... A master storyteller.' A.S. Byatt Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people. Profoundly moving as well as wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present. This extraordinary novel by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser will strike to your soul. '...one of those rare writers whose work balances substance with style. Her writing is very witty, but it also goes deep, informed at every point by a benign and far-reaching intelligence.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald '...a dazzlingly accomplished author who commands all the strokes. Her repertoire stretches from a hallucinatory sense of place to a mastery of suspense, sophisticated verbal artistry and a formidable skill in navigating those twisty paths where history and psychology entwine.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

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Author:   Michelle de Kretser
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781760875046


ISBN 10:   176087504
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 November 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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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 AS 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. Her last novel, Questions of Travel, received 14 honours, including winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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