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Landscape of Farewell

Landscape of Farewell

by Alex Miller
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 01/11/2008

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A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller.

It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After the death of his much-loved wife and his recognition that he will never write the great study of history that was to be his life's crowning work, Max believes his life is all but over. Everything changes, though, when his valedictory lecture is challenged by Professor Vita McLelland, a feisty young Australian Aboriginal academic visiting Germany. Their meeting and growing friendship sets Max on a journey that would have seemed unthinkable just a few short weeks earlier.

When, at Vita's invitation, Max travels to Australia, he forms a deep friendship with her uncle, Aboriginal elder Dougald Gnapun. It is a friendship that not only gives new meaning and purpose to Max, but which teaches him the profound importance of truth-telling in reconciliation with his own and his country's past.

Following Alex Miller's Miles Franklin-winning Journey to the Stone Country, Landscape of Farewell is a wise and grave novel of power, beauty and truth.

Praise for Alex Miller

'[The Ancestor Game] is a wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.' - Michael Ondaatje

'Miller is a master storyteller.' - Drusilla Modjeska
ISBN:
9781741754919
9781741754919
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2008
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
196x130x25mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Alex Miller

All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards.

He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game.

In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim.

Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated

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