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The Best Australian Essays: 2006 by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
A rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
The Best Australian Essays 2007 by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Languages and Reference
Promises to be a rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers, Modjeska. As well as showcasing some of Australia's best non-fiction writers, Modjeska demonstrates through her selection the wonderful versatility and beauty of the essay form.
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in the mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through gene ...Show more
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
A luminously written, rich tale of a country on the brink of independence, and split personal loyalties within postcolonial society In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil ethnographic filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with h ...Show more
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
'A novel as intricate and powerful as the bark-cloth paintings at its heart' -- Anna FunderIn 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated villa ...Show more
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
'In The Orchard [Modjeska] further develops her distinctive style, weaving fact with fiction, the essay with a flowing fictional narrative, and stories within stories... Modjeska is accessible and entertaining, a good story-teller... Love, adultery, marriage, and domination; sight, the fear of blindness ...Show more
Wisdom of the Mountain - Art of the Omie by Sana Balai; Judith Ryan; Drusilla Modjeska; National Gallery of Victoria Staff
Category: Art
Celebrates the dynamism of a vital living art form synonymous with Omie culture and presents the work of fourteen strongly individual Omie women artists, defying commonly held misconceptions that the artist in Papua New Guinean society is anonymous and male.