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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
2007

Pages
  
327 pp

Author
  
Steven Carroll

Genre
  
Novel

3.2/5
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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2007

Preceded by
  
The Gift of Speed

OCLC
  
225253907

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Publisher
  
Fourth Estate, Australia

Similar
  
Steven Carroll books, Novels

The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s. The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time' and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.'

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Awards

  • Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: winner
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: winner
  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007: shortlisted
  • The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, 2007: shortlisted

    • Reviews

  • "The Advertiser"
  • "The Age"
  • Readings

    • References

    The Time We Have Taken Wikipedia
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