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Questions of Travel

by Michelle de Kretser
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Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe — exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel — voluntary in her case, enforced in his.
With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be — home or away. "It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book." — A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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  • ISBN: 9780316248877
  • Release date: May 14, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780316248877
  • Release date: May 14, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780316248877
  • File size: 902 KB
  • Release date: May 14, 2013
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Fiction Literature Travel Literature

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Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe — exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel — voluntary in her case, enforced in his.
With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be — home or away. "It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book." — A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
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Fiction Literature Travel Literature