Questions of Travel in Aussie Readers

Apr 30, 2013 Kathryn rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: australian-authors, fiction, added-due-to-being-on-a-shortlist, reading-list-2015

This was a slow starter, but it was quite interesting. I enjoyed following Laura’s story and her travels. This started in the 1970s and went through until the mid 2000s and I liked reading of significant world events through the lives of the characters.

I know this won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2013 (and was nominated for others), but as I often find with literary fiction, it appears that the judges saw something I didn’t. It was an interesting story, and there are some nice descriptiv ...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Tien rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: australian-author, literature, own, giveaway, signed-by-author

I feel that I needed to justify my rating... I should maybe left it blank because I just really feel that I've missed the whole point of the novel? I have enjoyed the whole experience in reading the novel (agree with others' assessment of evocativeness) but in the end, I was just disappointed that neither characters seem to be neither here nor there (ie. they didn't seem to go / get anywhere). They just seemed to float through life -buoyed here and there by the current of other people rather tha ...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Jane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A story spanning 3 decades and covering the lives of two main characters, Laura, an Australian and Ravi, a Sri Lankan. The two meet only for a short time in the book and not on the level the reader predicts. As well as following the two main characters and their many friends and acquaintances (and lovers) the novel covers topics such as the unrest in Sri Lanka and Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, as well as the development of the internet and the place it takes in our society today.
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