In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's "Iliad"--one of the most famous passages in all of literature.
This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved [...]

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.[...]

From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son Hector being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way of reclaiming the body - of pitting compromise against heroics, new ways against the old, and of forcing the hand of fate. Dressed simply and in a cart pulled by a mule, [...]

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee

In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thir[...]

In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape[...]

Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity o[...]

Huset i Brisbane som den australiensiske författaren David Malouf växte upp i förvandlas i hans barndomskildring till den egentliga berättaren. Varje rum har sin egen historia, sin egen topografi, och dess möbler och föremål bildar tillsammans en nästan mytologisk karta över ett liv. Huset [...]

Stora världen är förlagd till åren mellan 1920 och 1988 och ger en inblick i över sjuttio år av Australiens historia. Det är en brett upplagd, allvarlig och varm, berättelse om två unga män som lär känna varandra när de under andra världskriget hamnar som japanska krigsfångar vid Död[...]