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Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2003

Pages
  
607 pp

Originally published
  
2003

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

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Publisher
  
Picador

Media type
  
Print Paperback

Followed by
  
The Street Sweeper

Author
  
Elliot Perlman

ISBN
  
0330364235

Preceded by
  
Three Dollars

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Elliot Perlman books, Novels

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Elliot Perlman.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel is narrated by seven different characters whose lives intersect in various ways. The first of these, Alex Klima, is a Czech psychiatrist who has been hired to treat Simon for his depression. Simon is obsessed with his ex-lover Anna, and it is this obsession that leads him on a downward path.

Awards

  • 2004 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize — South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
  • 2004 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 2004 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Fiction Book

    • Reviews

  • The Guardian
  • The New York Times
  • The Sydney Morning Herald

    • References

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