Shanghai Dancing challenges our expectations of storytelling. Beautifully and eloquently written, Castro takes as his inspiration his own family history which encompasses a global migration from the 17th century to present day Sydney. Castro's considerable literary skills turn history into a living, evocative present, a drama in which ancestors become living characters and are so vividly imagined they illuminate for us much of the essence of the Australian story...
Brian Castro
Looking For Estrellita
$22.00 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Brian Castro has won the Australian Vogel award, two state Premier's awards and the Age Fiction Prize for his novels. These essays chart his twenty-year career as a published writer, spanning a period of turmoil and anxi... Buy or find out more →
Drift
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
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Shanghai Dancing
$29.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
Shanghai Dancing challenges our expectations of storytelling. Beautifully and eloquently written, Castro takes as his inspiration his own family history which encompasses a global migration from the 17th century to prese... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Book
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
Set in the Dandenongs after the Depression, Castro’s sublime new novel revolves around Swan Hay, a Chinese-Australian married to Darcy Damon. She writes poems on leaves, and becomes a celebrated literary figure while rem... Buy or find out more →
After China
$24.95 – Paperback book /
An architect exiled from China meets an Australian woman writer who is terminally ill. He tells her traditional Chinese stories as a way of overcoming time/mortality, and of coming to terms with his own difficult past.
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The Bath Fugues
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Giramondo Publishing
From one if Australia's most lauded writers, comes a wonderfully wrought work, melding intrigue, romance, comedy and deception, taking the form of three interwoven novellas. Castro has won nearly every Australian literar... Buy or find out more →