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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Followed by
  
Springtime

Author
  
Michelle de Kretser

ISBN
  
9781743311004

Preceded by
  
The Lost Dog

3.1/5
Goodreads

Publication date
  
2012

Pages
  
517 pp

Originally published
  
2012

Genre
  
Literature

Country
  
Australia

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Publisher
  
Allen and Unwin, Australia

Similar
  
Michelle de Kretser books, Literature books, Other books

Michelle de kretser reads from her novel questions of travel at worlds literature festival


Questions of Travel is a 2012 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. It won the 2013 Miles Franklin Award and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.

Contents

Description

The novel concerns two main characters: Laura—an Australian woman who travels the world before returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides—and Ravi—an IT professional from Sri Lanka who flees his country after a major trauma. The novel "illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now."

Owen Richardson, in his review of the novel in The Monthly described it as "...a big, ambitious novel of Sydney and the world, globalisation and divided identities. It is everywhere full of intelligence and a vivid sense of individual lives."

The novel's title, Questions of Travel, is an homage to a poem of the same name by Elizabeth Bishop.

Awards

  • 2013 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize
  • 2013 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
  • 2013 winner Miles Franklin Award
  • 2013 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction
  • 2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
  • 2013 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita Kibble Literary Award
  • 2013 winner Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
  • 2013 shortlisted The Stella Prize
  • 2013 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
  • 2014 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year
  • 2014 joint winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Community Relations Commission Award With Andrew Bovell's stage adaptation of The Secret River.
  • 2014 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
  • 2014 shortlisted Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature — Award for Fiction
  • 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
  • 2014 shortlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

    • Reviews

  • Frank Moorhouse in The Guardian: "Australia has been waiting for a book which looks into the face of travel and sees it for all the illusions and traps and shallowness and, sometimes, life-changing meaning that it offers or withholds."
  • Randy Boyagoda in The New York Times: "Like our expectations of travel, as opposed to the realities we usually experience, de Kretser’s novel is a book full of promise that offers many passing wonders and intensities amid a lot of busy-making and slack time."

    • References

    Questions of Travel Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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