The Great World
by David Malouf
ISBN-10
0099273861
ISBN-13
9780099273868
Publisher
Vintage BooksPublished on
May 20, 1999Edition
1st Edition
Binding
UK-B Format PaperbackDimensions
5.08 x 0.79 x 7.80 In
Weight
0.52 Pounds
About the Book
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.