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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Preceded by
  
Just Like That

Author
  
Lily Brett

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

3.9/5
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Publication date
  
1999

Pages
  
714

Originally published
  
1999

Page count
  
714

ISBN
  
0330361392

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Publisher
  
Pan Macmillan, Australia

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Too Many Men (1999) is a novel by Australian author Lily Brett. It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region.

Contents

Plot summary

Ruth Rothwax, a successful New York business-woman, takes her 80-year-old father Edek, a Holocaust survivor living in Melbourne, back to Poland, to revisit the land of his birth. They are also accompanied, unknown to Edek, by the ghost of the dead Nazi Rudolf Höss. The novel explores the two main characters' different responses to what they find.

Reviews

  • Publishers' Weekly noted: "The hardest effect to bring off in fiction is a vision that is at once tender, deeply comic and yet aware of the ultimate sadness of life, the lachrymae rerum. Brett has succeeded triumphantly in the most delightful surprise of the year so far."
  • Shannon Dowling in Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature stated: "Too Many Men represents a culmination of the concerns of [Brett's] work — the legacies of the Holocaust; the concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau; inter-generational trauma; and continuing anti-Semitism."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 1999 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award
  • 2000 winner Commonwealth Writers' Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
  • 2000 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award

    • References

    Too Many Men (novel) Wikipedia
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