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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1992

Pages
  
302 pp

Originally published
  
1992

Genre
  
Novel

Preceded by
  
The Tivington Nott

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Publisher
  
Penguin, Australia

Media type
  
Paperback

ISBN
  
0-14-015987-8

Author
  
Alex Miller

Country
  
Australia

OCLC
  
27488276

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The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. The Ancestor Game was republished by Allen & Unwin in 2003.

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Reviews

'Takes the historical novel to new frontiers. It is fabulous in every sense of the word.' - Commonwealth Writers Prize judges

'Extraordinary fictional portraits of China and Australia.' - New York Times Book Review

'A major new novel of grand design and rich texture, a vast canvas of time and space, its gaze outward yet its vision intimate and intellectually abundant.' - The Age

Awards

  • 1993 Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 1993 Winner Overall Best Book Award Commonwealth Writers Prize
  • 1993 Shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
  • 1992 Joint Winner FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year

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