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  • Arabesques
    Robert Dessaix
    One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure.On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge ...
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  • A Mother’s Disgrace
    Robert Dessaix
    Shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal and the Victorian Premier’s Literary AwardsHighly commended for the FAW Christina Stead Award, the Age Book of the Year and the National Book Council CUB Banjo AwardsAdopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by ‘a shaft of silence’ surrounding the question o...
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  • Corfu
    Robert Dessaix
    ‘House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.’In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he’s never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house he’s living in. As he explores his surroundings and makes new friends, his own life begins to appear to him like an il...
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  • Twilight of Love
    Robert Dessaix
    Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary AwardWinner of the Margaret Scott PrizeFor forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe, even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. Yet as far as we kno...
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  • Night Letters
    Robert Dessaix
    Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold MedalShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary AwardEvery night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters, against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, with Dante as his imagined guide, he reflect...
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