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Wonders of a Godless World

Wonders of a Godless World

by Andrew McGahan
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/11/2009

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On a torpid tropical island, in a decaying mental institution, there lives an orphan, a young woman who cannot speak, or understand the speech of others, or even remember her own name. Hers is a strange and isolated existence. Until, that is, a new patient arrives at her hospital - a mysterious foreigner who is lost in an inexplicable coma. Although he never wakes, the orphan becomes convinced that she can hear this foreigner speaking in her head. He is cursed, he claims, with immortality. And so begins a bizarre relationship between the two, a journey of discovery that will take them right around the world, and ultimately far beyond it. But is any of this actually occurring? Or is it only madness? And why have the other inmates in the hospital begun to behave so oddly? As chaos threatens to consume them all, the orphan is gradually forced to question her very notions of self and power and sexuality and love, and finally to confront the true enigma of the foreigners curse, and of his life never-ending. Wonders of a Godless World, the new novel from Miles Franklin Award-winner Andrew McGahan, is a tumultuous tale of amazing happenings and archetypal conflicts.
It is also a thought-provoking investigation into consciousness, a head-stretching story about the paradoxes of the mind, and a dramatic challenge to age-old assumptions about humanitys place in the world.
ISBN:
9781458741592
9781458741592
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-11-2009
Publisher:
ReadHowYouWant
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
512
Dimensions (mm):
234x156mm
Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan is one of Australia's finest fiction writers. His first novel, Praise, won the 1992 Australian Vogel Literary Award. The White Earth won the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year and The Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. In 2009 Andrew was shortlisted for the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his contribution to Australian Literature.

The Coming of the Whirlpool, book one in the Ship Kings series, was shortlisted for an Indie Award, an ABIA, an Aurealis Award, a Golden Inky and a 2012 CBC award. Book two, The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was Highly Commended in the 2012 Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards Christina Stead Award, a 2013 CBC Notable Book and shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards.

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