Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020 'A novelist for our
times' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland In this brilliant novel of
fear and sacrifice, trauma and survival, four characters' lives
intertwine across time and place. Australian soldier Toohey returns
from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD. A
decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with
Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday, triggering a perilous
search for safety. In Melbourne as the millennium turns, Robbie,
faced with her father's dementia and family silences that may never
be addressed, begins to test boundaries. And in the present day,
Gerry seeks to escape his father Toohey's tyranny and heal the
wounds inflicted by it. Act of Grace is a meditation on
inheritance: the damage that one generation bestows upon the next,
and the potential for transformation. It is a searing, powerful and
utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer.
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