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The Last Sky by Alice NelsonAlice Nelson, who was shortlisted for the 2004 Australian/Vogel Award for Swimming Without Water is a literary writer.Published 1 June, 2008 
Alice Nelson, who was shortlisted for the 2004 Australian/Vogel Award for Swimming Without Water is a literary writer. Her new novel The Last Sky is about stories and how they define us, but Nelson seems most entranced with language and writing. Set in Hong Kong, her descriptions of the city are superb, the tone one of sensuous melancholy. Maya, an Australian writer and academic, is in Hong Kong with her archaeologist husband Joseph. He is away doing fieldwork in China for much of the time, while she wanders the streets of this very foreign city. Maya befriends a Chinese bookseller who tells her a story about a Russian Jew with whom he’d been in love, and Maya’s re-imagining of Ada Lang’s life in Shanghai and Hong Kong forms an intriguing subplot. Through the stories Maya tells about others she slowly begins to understand her own story and her troubled marriage. But these stories are elliptical and not always satisfactory; this is not a novel for those who prefer a strong narrative. Maya is a humourless protagonist, at times even dull, but for those who enjoy beautiful writing and an assured tone and mood, The Last Sky has much to offer. Morgan Smith is the events manager at Gleebooks in Sydney More from Fiction Book Reviews
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Esther Woolfson shares her home with a rook named Chicken.10 December, 2008 
I don’t get it. Writing classes are teeming with prospective novelists yet debut fiction continues to be the wallflower of Australian publishing.15 November, 2008 
No one writes Regency like Australia’s Anna Campbell.15 November, 2008 
This book is a strange beast, and not the easiest to review.15 November, 2008 
Across 4000 nautical miles of mountainous seas and iceberg fields in the Southern Ocean, an Australian patrol pursues an illegal Uruguayan fishing boat.15 November, 2008 |
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