{"product_id":"2026100009481-secondhand-the-tax-inspector-signed","title":"The Tax Inspector (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: faded dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing portrait of suburban dysfunction, The Tax Inspector plunges the reader into the decaying world of the Catchprice family, a clan of used-car dealers whose crumbling Sydney business becomes the stage for a confrontation with secrets, trauma, and moral collapse when a pregnant tax inspector named Maria Takis arrives to audit their affairs. Peter Carey constructs a world where the mundane machinery of commerce masks something far darker — a family imprisoned by its own dysfunctional history, psychological damage, and cycles of abuse that have been passed down through generations.\n\nCarey, a two-time Booker Prize winner, brings his characteristic blend of dark satire and unflinching social realism to this 1991 novel, wielding language that is simultaneously tender and brutal, intimate and panoramic. The Tax Inspector stands as one of Australian literature's most unsettling domestic dramas, a work that holds a mirror to the anxieties of modern capitalism and the violence concealed beneath the surface of ordinary life — leaving the reader to wonder whether redemption is ever truly possible for those born into ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203179716827,"sku":"2026100009481-SECONDHAND","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/41e87a29-8bfe-45d3-b6b8-161c370744d5.png?v=1788144955","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009481-secondhand-the-tax-inspector-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}