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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1 April 2015

Pages
  
248 pp

Author
  
A. S. Patrić

ISBN
  
9781921924835

3.5/5
Goodreads

Publisher
  
Transit Lounge

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
1 April 2015

Genre
  
Literary fiction

Country
  
Australia

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Black Rock White City (2015) is the debut novel of Australian writer A. S. Patrić. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 2016.

Contents

Plot outline

In the late 1990s Jovan, a writer and academic in Serbia, is now a refugee living in Melbourne and working as a cleaner at a hospital. He is tasked with cleaning up some graffiti which is followed by more vandalism that becomes ever more weird and threatening.

Reviews

  • Commenting on behalf of the Miles Franklin Award judging panel, State Library of NSW Mitchell Librarian, Richard Neville, said Black Rock White City delivers a powerful and raw account of the migrant experience in Australia, exploring the damages of war, and the possibility of redemptive love, in the context of debilitating emotional and physical dislocation.
  • Joanne Peulen of Booklover Book Reviews said "Black Rock White City defies typical genre categorisation, and that perhaps this is the mark of a truly great novel… with the intensity and suspense of a psychological thriller, the lyricism and universality of great literature, and the grittiness and brutality of a crime novel".
  • Lisa Hill of ANZLitLovers said "Black Rock White City is a stunning novel that places A.S. Patrić among the finest of our new crop of writers. His prose is uncompromising but his imagery is exquisite. He doesn’t fall back on lashings of foul language to express ferocity and violence; and his use of poetry to reveal the Jovan unseen by the people he meets, is sublime."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2016 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction
  • 2016 winner Miles Franklin Literary Award

    • References

    Black Rock White City Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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