{"product_id":"2026100009378-secondhand-harlands-half-acre-signed","title":"Harland's Half Acre (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: signed bookplate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched landscapes of twentieth-century Australia, Harland's Half Acre chronicles the life of Frank Harland, a visionary painter whose consuming obsession with art and land drives him through poverty, isolation, and an almost mythic pursuit of belonging. David Malouf constructs a sweeping narrative that traces Frank's origins in the Queensland bush, following his journey across decades as he seeks to reclaim — through canvas and sheer will — a lost ancestral parcel of land that represents something far greater than mere property: identity, legacy, and the soul of a country.\n\nMalouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, writes with a lyrical precision that transforms the physical terrain of his homeland into a moral and spiritual landscape. His prose shimmers with an intense, poetic quality that rewards close reading, drawing on themes of memory, inheritance, artistic vocation, and the uneasy relationship between indigenous land and settler identity. A Booker Prize-shortlisted masterwork, Harland's Half Acre stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature — and a novel that leaves you questioning what it truly means to possess, or be possessed by, a place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219870130395,"sku":"2026100009378-SECONDHAND","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9665d827-7f0f-4a47-83ff-bdb9bdfaaa25.png?v=1788483004","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009378-secondhand-harlands-half-acre-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}