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Language English Media type Print (Paperback) Followed by Springtime 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.
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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.