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Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid. After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life. Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents' bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when he's drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father. As these two stories weave around each other-each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierce-we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.

About the Author :
EVIE WYLD grew up in Australia and London, where she currently lives. She received an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was featured as one of "Granta"'s New Voices in May 2008.

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"Haunting and brilliant." --"San Francisco Chronicle "(recommended reading) "A superb first novel." --"Times "(London) "Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one . . . With awesome skill and whiplash wit, Evie Wyld knits together past and present, with tension building all the time. In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two of the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both." --"Daily Mail " ""After the Fire, a Still Small Voice "has the kind of dark shimmer that mesmerizes as it disturbs . . . What distinguishes Wyld is her incandescent empathy for her male characters and the things they are unable to say, the assurance with which she reaches for a rough-edged authenticity over the easy pleasures of lyricism." --"Vogue " "At last, in a world that shouts, a novel that doesn't need to. A revelation and a joy--wild, wise and wonderful." --Chris Cleave, author of "Little Bee" "A mesmerising novel . . . This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things." -- "Independent" "An astonishingly assured debut . . . A stunning work from a brilliant new voice." --"Esquire "(UK) "A jewel of a book . . . Will keep you reading past bedtime." --"Grazia" "A terrifically self-assured debut . . . It's a cauterising, cleansing tale, told with muscular writing." --"Guardian"" " "Fiction writing at its best with characters so vividly drawn, they seem to literally leap off of the printed pages . . . An enticing debut novel." --"Tucson Citizen" "It's not often that I fall for a novel from the very first page, but the controlled and expressive opening to "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice" is utterly irresistible . . . It is a superb novel." --"Guardian.co.uk" "The searing descriptions of the changeab


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307378460
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Random House Inc
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307378462
  • Publisher Date: 25 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 445 gr


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