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Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly Australian woman lets a mysterious and possibly sinister caretaker into her beach-side home and into her life"--
Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman-Frida-claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in. Now that Frida is in the...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls....In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award A powerful debut novel about two refugees starting over after losing everything Jovan and Suzana have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their standing as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other. Now working as cleaners in a suburb of Melbourne, they struggle to rebuild their lives under the painful hardships of immigrant life. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's...
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