Ches Last Embrace (Paperback)

Nicholas Hasluck

ISBN 10: 1922669814 / ISBN 13: 9781922669810

Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, VIC, 2022

About this Item

Paperback. A contemporary artist is out to win a portrait prize by sketching a Che Guevara rebel from the old Australian colony in Paraguay. The artist's brother is troubled by doubts about the rebel's heroic identity and feels obliged to investigate. Set largely in South America, the novel explores divergent approaches to the truth in the wilds of Bolivia where Che sought to ignite a widespread revolution. The investigation ends in Sydney where Che's ambitious dreams are still revered and the prize will soon be awarded. The counterfactual mysteries to be unravelled mirror South America's own ingenious literary form, magic realism, a form reflecting the post-modern world's richly-imagined but often bizarre perceptions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ches Last Embrace (Paperback)
• Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, VIC
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922669814
• ISBN 13: 9781922669810
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A contemporary artist is out to win a portrait prize by sketching a Che Guevara rebel from the old Australian colony in Paraguay. The artist’s brother is troubled by doubts about the rebel’s heroic identity and feels obliged to investigate.

Set largely in South America, the novel explores divergent approaches to the truth in the wilds of Bolivia where Che sought to ignite a widespread revolution. The investigation ends in Sydney where Che’s ambitious dreams are still revered and the prize will soon be awarded. The counter-factual mysteries to be unraveled mirror South America’s own ingenious literary form, magic realism, a form reflecting the post-modern world’s richly-imagined but often bizarre perceptions.

About the Author

Nicholas Hasluck studied law in Western Australia, then Oxford, before practising law in Perth and becoming a Supreme Court Judge. Twice short-listed for the Miles Franklin Prize, he has written 15 works of fiction, including 'Dismissal' and 'The Bellarmine Jug', winner of The Age Book of the Year Award. According to a reviewer in 'The Weekend Australian', as a Judge and accomplished novelist, he is one of only two living Australians with such an achievement. The London 'Financial Times' has called Nicholas Hasluck ‘a truly important writer’.