$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin / ISBN:9781741756067)
The Lost Dog
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she
has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK)
The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed
writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose
Grower, was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Her
second, The Hamilton Case, won the Commonwealth Prize (SE
Asia and Pacific), the Tasmania Prize and the Encore Prize, and was
a New York Times Notable Book.
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The
Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that
brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with
the wild, ancient continent beyond. With its atmosphere of menace
and an acute sense of the unexplained in any story, The Lost
Dog intriguingly highlights the collision of the primal and the
civilised, modernity and the past and home and exile.
A mystery, a love story, a celebration of dogs and the joy they
bring us, and a meditation on the essence of art and nature, The
Lost Dog is a gripping contemporary novel which explores the
weight of history as well as different ways of seeing and
comprehending the world.
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