$32.64
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
Red Heaven is the story of a child’s journey to adulthood, his loss of those he loves and his fixing of them in memory. It begins in the late 1960s in Switzerland, as the boy’s ideas about life are being shaped by two rival influences.
These are his so-called aunts—imperious, strong-willed, ambitious—both exiles, at the mercy of outside political events; both determined to make the boy into their own heir, an inheritor of their values. In self-contained episodes, each set in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192245804X |
| Author: | Nicolas Rothwell |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 415mm x 212mm |
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Critics Review
‘Rothwell’s writing resists easy description. He roams the borderlands between memoir and fiction and insinuates himself into gaps between time and place…His prose is lush and often beautiful.’
‘A caster of spells.’ – Australian Book Review
‘Hugely impressive.’ – Guardian
‘Remarkable.’ – Age
‘A weird and wonderful writer.’ – Australian
‘Melancholy, singular, exhilarating.’ – Delia Falconer
‘Rothwell’s writing resists easy description. He roams the borderlands between memoir and fiction and insinuates himself into gaps between time and place…His prose is lush and often beautiful.’ – Weekend Australian on Belomor
‘Outstanding…Romantic, dramatic, intelligent, cultured, enigmatic, cinematic…Rothwell walks alongside W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin and Teju Cole…[Red Heaven] made me feel alive as I read.’ * Australian *
‘Red Heaven is the account, rendered on a grand scale by the most exquisite and enigmatic figure in contemporary Australian literature, of how one boy grew out of his tangled inheritance and found his own.’ * Saturday Paper *
‘Nicolas Rothwell is exquisite, a writer whose work is hung with the insignia of the world’s art and literature. He is a cultivated writer…Red Heaven is a book that will fascinate the literary seeker.’ * Peter Craven, Age *
‘A work of genuine intellectual exploration, original and provocative.’ * Australian Book Review *
‘An engrossing novel of ideas.’ * Glyn Davis, ABR Books of the Year 2021 *
‘Full of literary parallels, symbols and ideas…Red Heaven stretches the boundaries of fiction…I enjoyed Rothwell’s attention to the history of ideas and admired the rich character development.’ * Historical Novel Society *
‘Red Heaven is a dazzling novel for the ages…a novel that transcends time and place.’ * Judges comments for the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards *
About The Author
Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell lives in Far North Queensland and is a former foreign correspondent. His award-winning books include The Red Highway, Belomor and, most recently, Quicksilver.
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