The Great World (Paperback, New Ed)

David Malouf

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On the surface, this is a novel about war but really it is more about the after-effects of war. It follows a man called Digger from his home near a desolate crossing in Australia to fighting in the Far East, and back again to Sydney, after being a prisoner of the Japanese. Relationships forged in the prison camp influence life afterwards to such an extent that the war is seen to dominate the entire life not just of Digger, and of Vic, his 'friend', but of all the family back home. (Kirkus UK)

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and theSomme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet,David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters ofthe Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.

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Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1999
First published:	May 2001
Authors:	David Malouf
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	336
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-927386-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-09-927386-1
Barcode:	9780099273868