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In den Ebenen im Outback, auf ihren riesigen Ländereien, leben Familien, die eine eigentümliche, teils fort-, teils rückschrittliche Kultur pflegen. Besessen von der eigenen Überlieferung, heuern sie Maler, Musiker, Schriftsteller und Denker an, um jeden Aspekt ihres Lebens dokumentieren zu lassen. Ein junger Filmemacher kommt in die Region, um ein Porträt jener Ebenen zu realisieren. Doch statt in die Landschaft zu gehen, vergräbt er sich in ...

Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize.

Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting, with a map of the country they live in, with the syllables of their name? What about, then, a fictional character, in a book about a country one has never, and will never, visit?

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A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane 'a genius on the level of Beckett.

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A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint.

A kaleidoscopic meditation on the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. "The house of fiction, " wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." Gerald Murnane takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? Focusing on the importance of trust and the ever-present risk of betrayal in writing as in life, these nested stories explore the ...