$21.95 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press / ISBN:9781875559893)
White Turtle
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic tales are stories of chance and hope. Alternately mythic, wistful or quirky, Merlinda Bobis’ tales resonate with an original and confident storytelling voice.
Merlinda Bobis
The Solemn Lantern Maker
$26.95 (Paperback book / Pier )
Ten-year-old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines that he sees an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it’s only an American tourist who is caught in a drive-by shooting of a political journalist... More »
Banana Heart Summer
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family’s hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is... More »
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
$21.90 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press )
To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain. To do all these in peace and war is the wish embo... More »
White Turtle
$21.95 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press )
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic... More »