{"product_id":"2026100008741-secondhand-the-unusual-life-of-tristan-smith-signed","title":"The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\n\nCarey, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573379338459,"sku":"2026100008741-SECONDHAND","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/194552af-656f-41e7-8a47-ee5ec6f07e08.png?v=1791168154","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008741-secondhand-the-unusual-life-of-tristan-smith-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}