Awards

• Winner of Age Book of the Year 1980 (Australia)
• Winner of Age Book of the Year 1980.
• Winner of Age Book of the Year Award 1980 (Australia)
• Winner of National Book Council Award for Australian Literature 1980 (Australia)
• Winner of National Book Council Award for Australian Literature 1980.

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It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no. Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted—and all are altered.

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Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novel, The Pages, was published in 2008 to great acclaim.

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