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Returning once more to his constant concern with colonialism, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) is an allegorical account of the relationship between two fictional countries. Voorstand, a huge northern hemisphere land mass with a strong, if slowly decaying, popular culture, slyly but effectively dominates, both militarily and culturally, the smaller and scattered southern dominions of Efica, "a country so unimportant that you are already confusing the name with Ithaca or Africa" (p. 5). Carey gives us these two countries completely, and the text is replete with their histories, mythologies, languages and legends. Incorporating many elements of the grotesque, including the marvellous invention of the Voorstandish "Sirkus", this work is an amazing allegory of colonialism, a picaresque account of the life of Tristan Smith, severely damaged at birth but determined to make his mark on the cultural map of his country.
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rize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.
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Twice winner of the Booker Prize, Peter Carey's most recent novel Parrot and Olivier in America was described by the New Yorker as 'a comic masterpiece' and by the Sunday Times as 'an exhilarating tour-de-force'. It was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and a National Book Award in 2010.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 057117504X
- ISBN 13 9780571175048
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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