Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne VIC, 2013
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Author has signed title page (unverified).A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive,Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space and looks into the murk and sediment of herself.Four chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds.In this entrancing new book from one of our most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in remote Australia, snake hunters, opal miners and desert magic healers.Belomoris a meditation on time, and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it. (back cover).…
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- Title
- Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell
- Author
- Nicolas Rothwell
- Publisher
- Text Publishing, Melbourne VIC
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 192207974X
- ISBN 13
- 9781922079749
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.5 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Seller catalogs
- Secondhand Books, Subjects - Australian Literature - Australian Fiction
"Masterful and unforgettable."—Pico Iyer
"Melancholy, singular, exhilarating, Belomor reads like a haunted history of the world."—Delia Falconer
"Belomor resists easy categorisation. Its many characters are elusive, some more types than characters, more mouthpieces than fully rounded individuals. But this does not detract from this beautiful and mesmerising book, which engages the intellect as well as the emotions."—Weekend Australian
Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet—where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.
A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space, and looks into the murk and sediment of herself.
Four chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds.
In this entrancing new book from one of Australia's most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in the outback, snake hunters, opal miners, and desert magic healers. Belomor is a meditation on time and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it.
Nicolas Rothwell is the award-winning author of Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway, and Journeys to the Interior. He lives in Darwin, Northern Territory, and is the Australian newspaper's roving northern correspondent.
Belomor was chosen as one of the Times Literary Supplements Best Books of 2013.
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