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Title: Questions of Travel
Author: Michelle de Krester
Narrator: Vanessa Coffey, Sartaj Garewal
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving audiobook from one of world literature's rising stars.
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories - from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself in Australia.
Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Questions of Travel is an extraordinary work of imagination - a transformative, very funny and intensely moving novel.
Critic Reviews:
''Man Booker-longlisted de Kretser's precisely written novel is concerned with tourists, refugees and the complexities of immigration...a nuanced and ambivalent look at the crassness of tourism.'' (The Sunday Times)
''This is a novel unlike any other I have read.... It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book.'' (The Guardian)
''Novel by novel, the Sri Lankan-born Australian has emerged as one of the most fiercely intelligent voices in fiction today. This new work, her most ambitious yet, makes globalisation and its discontents the focus of a multi-faceted story that unites grandeur and intimacy.'' (The Independent)
Members Reviews:
Has stayed with me
I'm pretty old now. I've read a lot. Knowing life is short, I do not hesitate to abondon books that have failed to engage me after a couple of chapters. I must admit that I wondered at first whether Questions of Travel would make the cut.
It features two unprepossessing characters, utterly separated - in terms of geography, character, social milieu, race and most certainly in terms of their experience of travel - for almost all of the book. Neither is really loveable, yet i grew to love them both. The sense of each sits with me now, two weeks after finishing the book. As in The Hamilton Case, de Kretser has nailed something profound about human experience - things I have not found nailed elsewhere in fiction. In the earlier novel, it was something about how dealing with an unloveable parent can made a grown child nastier still. In this book - and I haven't processed it yet, it is all still swirling - it is something about being alone in the great world and about how it is possible to function there having no future whatsoever.
It includes a cracker of a satire on a Lonely Planet-like publishing company. Forgetting the profound bits, at regular intervals these bits made me snort with laughter.
Travel as poetry
Michelle de Kretser's wonderful ideas regarding the meaning of travel. Travel as a tourist, as an escape from evil or personal pain or a quest for something more, is all dealt with here in a very skillful way. Laura, the unloved woman searching for a life, spends years traveling from one country to another and then, finding nothing, settles back into her home country. Here she travels through various relationships in a desperate attempt to find love, life and home.
