6.8 /10 1 Votes
Language English Publication date 2005 Pages 181 Genre Novel Country Australia | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publisher Picador, Australia Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 2005 Page count 181 ISBN 0330421581 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Ron McCoy's Sea of Di, Archipelago of Souls, The Grand Hotel: A Novel, The Moth Mass (Storycuts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Patron Saint of Eels (2005) is a novel by Australian author Gregory Day. It won the 2006 ALS Gold Medal.
Contents
Plot summary
A moral tale, the novel tells the story of an Italian saint, Fra Ionio, who comes down from heaven to the small Australian town of Mangowak, to save some eels trapped in a ditch and to teach life lessons to some locals.
Reviews
Lisa Gorton in The Age noted that the novel "is gentle in spirit, reverent and celebratory", and "is as much a tribute to the life of a small town as it is the hagiography of a saint."
Awards and nominations
References
The Patron Saint of Eels Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA