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Examines the fine lines between art and illusion, religion and mysticism, and civilization and savagery in the story of an English prisoner in Australia who escapes into the outback and joins an Aborigine clan
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The first novel in a trilogy by the winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most presitigious literary prize, who has been compared to Joyce, Faulkner and Marquez. Set in the early nineteenth century, it tells the story of a young English convict transported to an Australian colony, where he escapes into the bush and becomes the adopted member of an Aborigine clan.
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