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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
1-74166-522-1

Author
  
Gail Jones

Country
  
Australia

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Publication date
  
2006

Pages
  
229 pp

Originally published
  
2006

Genre
  
Novel

Preceded by
  
Sixty Lights

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Publisher
  
Vintage Books, Australia

Nominations
  
International Dublin Literary Award

Similar
  
Gail Jones books, Novels

Dreams of Speaking is a 2006 novel by Australian author Gail Jones.

Contents

Themes

The novel explores the themes of the creative writing process, memory, loneliness and cross-cultural friendships.

Epigraph

"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking" - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Awards

  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2007: shortlisted
  • Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (UK), 2006: longlisted
  • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2006: shortlisted

    • Reviews

  • "The Age" [1]
  • "Readings" [2]
  • "The Sydney Morning Herald" [3]
  • "The Telegraph" [4]

    • References

    Dreams of Speaking Wikipedia
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