Language English Publication date 2012 Pages 432 Originally published 2012 Page count 432 ISBN 9781741666502 | Publisher Vintage, Australia Media type Print (Paperback) Preceded by The Orchard Genre Novel Country Australia | |
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The Mountain (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award.
Contents
Plot summary
The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a PNG university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia.
Reviews
Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire." Eleanor Limprecht in the Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things.