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Questions of Travel

Michelle de Kretser

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Questions of Travel

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Wanderlust captured in alternating stories.

Recommended for avid travelers seeking serendipity. The book weaves together the stories of two characters from vastly different backgrounds, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and finding one's place in the world through travel. Users would appreciate the vivid descriptions of exotic locations and the introspective perspective on what it means to be a global citizen.

  • Miles Franklin Literary Award (2013)
  • Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction (2013)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2013)
  • ALS Gold Medal (2013)
  • The Stella Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2013)
  • Nita B. Kibble Literary Award Nominee (2013)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Questions of Travel

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Condition guide
ISBN: 9780316219235
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date of Publication: 2014-05-13
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asia
Goodreads rating: 3.08
(rated by 2864 readers)

Description

Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by. Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his.With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be--home or away.
 

Wanderlust captured in alternating stories.

Recommended for avid travelers seeking serendipity. The book weaves together the stories of two characters from vastly different backgrounds, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and finding one's place in the world through travel. Users would appreciate the vivid descriptions of exotic locations and the introspective perspective on what it means to be a global citizen.

  • Miles Franklin Literary Award (2013)
  • Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction (2013)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2013)
  • ALS Gold Medal (2013)
  • The Stella Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2013)
  • Nita B. Kibble Literary Award Nominee (2013)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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