The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Born into a world that refuses to accept him, Tristan Smith — a physically deformed child raised in the shadow of his mother's travelling theatre troupe in the small, fictional nation of Efica — becomes an unlikely vessel for a story of identity, power, and cultural imperialism. Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is a bold, satirical work of speculative fiction that constructs an entirely imagined geopolitical landscape, using the fraught relationship between the tiny nation of Efica and its overbearing neighbour Voorstand as a sharp allegory for Australia's own cultural subordination to American influence. Carey, twice winner of the Booker Prize, writes with the razor-sharp wit and baroque inventiveness that have defined his place at the pinnacle of contemporary Australian literature. His prose is dense with invention — populated by costumed performers, political intrigue, and a cast of misfits who illuminate the very real anxieties of nations consumed by borrowed culture. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is at once a parable and a provocation, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our own identity is truly our own — and how much has been quietly colonised.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Born into a world that refuses to accept him, Tristan Smith — a physically deformed child raised in the shadow of his mother's travelling theatre troupe in the small, fictional nation of Efica — becomes an unlikely vessel for a story of identity, power, and cultural imperialism. Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is a bold, satirical work of speculative fiction that constructs an entirely imagined geopolitical landscape, using the fraught relationship between the tiny nation of Efica and its overbearing neighbour Voorstand as a sharp allegory for Australia's own cultural subordination to American influence. Carey, twice winner of the Booker Prize, writes with the razor-sharp wit and baroque inventiveness that have defined his place at the pinnacle of contemporary Australian literature. His prose is dense with invention — populated by costumed performers, political intrigue, and a cast of misfits who illuminate the very real anxieties of nations consumed by borrowed culture. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is at once a parable and a provocation, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our own identity is truly our own — and how much has been quietly colonised.