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After China by Brian Castro; Katharine England (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Novel exploring the relationship between a Chinese architect who has fled his homeland and a woman who is dying of cancer. Winner of the 1993 Victorian Premier's Award. New edition includes an introduction by Adelaide-based reviewer and critic, Katherine England, and brief explanatory notes. Author is w ...Show more
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria: A Novel in 34 Cantos by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club wh ...Show more
Brain Castro - the Garden Book by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
Brian Castro's award-winning novel, "The Garden Book," is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation. Set in the years between the Depression and the Second World War in Australia's Dandenong Ranges, it follows the emotionally turbulent life of the beautiful Swan Hay (born Shuang He)--her ma ...Show more
Chinese Postman by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls 'the mannered and meditative inaction of age', offering up memories and anxieties, obsess ...Show more
Drift by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
Brian Castro's fifth novel is perhaps his most complex and certainly his most political. Like all his work it is productively playful, punningly irreverent and deeply concerned with sex and death, fact and fiction
Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
This is the new epic novel by multi award winning Australian author Brian Castro. It is perhaps his most important work,a fictional autobiography and loosely based on the rich and painful history of his own extended family.
Stepper by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
"Nominally a spy thriller, Stepper is based on the real exploits of pre-war Russian spies operating in Japan. It is an existential study of a spy who, in a world where identity is not a fixed idea, fails to secure his own stable identity."--Author's website.
Street To Street(Prizewinner longlist Miles Franklin 2013) by Castro, Brian
Category: Fiction | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
Brian Castro takes up the novella, the form favoured by David Malouf and Helen Garner, in his new work of fiction, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan. Brennan wrote some of the most powerful and ambitious poems in Australian poetry; he was a formidable liter ...Show more
The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
Category: Fiction
The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than thei ...Show more
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