The Great World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Great World, a sweeping and profoundly human novel that binds two men together across the vast sweep of the twentieth century. Set against the backdrop of the Second World War's Pacific theatre — from the horrors of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp to the quiet suburban rhythms of postwar Australia — the novel chronicles the unlikely friendship between Digger Keen, a man of deep inner stillness rooted in his family's country pub, and Vic Curran, a driven survivor haunted by ambition and the ghosts of deprivation. Their shared suffering forges a bond that neither time nor circumstance can fully dissolve, even as the wider world pulls them in divergent directions. David Malouf writes with a rare lyrical precision, transforming the intimate details of ordinary lives into a meditation on memory, survival, identity, and the quiet heroism that history so often forgets. The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, stands as a landmark of Australian literature — a novel that argues, with quiet but devastating force, that the truest measure of a man is not found in grand gestures but in what he carries, unseen, within him. For readers who have ever wondered how the past shapes the present, Malouf's answer is as haunting as it is unforgettable.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991, Pantheon Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Great World, a sweeping and profoundly human novel that binds two men together across the vast sweep of the twentieth century. Set against the backdrop of the Second World War's Pacific theatre — from the horrors of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp to the quiet suburban rhythms of postwar Australia — the novel chronicles the unlikely friendship between Digger Keen, a man of deep inner stillness rooted in his family's country pub, and Vic Curran, a driven survivor haunted by ambition and the ghosts of deprivation. Their shared suffering forges a bond that neither time nor circumstance can fully dissolve, even as the wider world pulls them in divergent directions. David Malouf writes with a rare lyrical precision, transforming the intimate details of ordinary lives into a meditation on memory, survival, identity, and the quiet heroism that history so often forgets. The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, stands as a landmark of Australian literature — a novel that argues, with quiet but devastating force, that the truest measure of a man is not found in grand gestures but in what he carries, unseen, within him. For readers who have ever wondered how the past shapes the present, Malouf's answer is as haunting as it is unforgettable.