- Title:
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
- Written by:
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Evie Wyld
- Read by:
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David Tredinnick
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 10 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2011
- Available Date:
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January 01 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742675237
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Longlisted Dublin IMPAC Award 2011
“The best Australian literary novel I’ve read this year. It’s an arresting portrait of masculine grief, set in a landscape of aching sadness.”
The Age
“A terrifically self-assured debut…a cauterising, cleansing tale, told with muscular writing.”
The Guardian
A haunting tale from a talented new writer.
Following the breakdown of a turbulent relationship, Frank moves from Canberra to a shack on the east coast once owned by his grandparents. There, among the sugar cane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.
Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents' bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when he's conscripted as a machine-gunner in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.
As these two stories weave around each other - each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierce - we learn what binds together Frank and Leon, and what may end up keeping them apart.
“Wyld has a feel both for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain.”
The New Yorker
"Landscape plays a major role in Wyld's writing. It opens up the narrative, creating an eerie metaphorical space, or silence, between each character, mirroring the physical and mental fissures that separate each generation. Although nothing is truly silent: even the landscape is "thick with insect noise". The power of this mesmerising novel hangs on the premise that silence is impossible, while such impossibility forces the men who litter its landscape to desire it all the more...
...Wyld's writing is assured enough to elongate metaphor and symbolism, creating a novel both taut and otherworldly. This adroit examination of loss, lostness and trauma is the beginning of great things."
The Independent
"The landscape of Australia's east coast looms large in the book, wild and sinister, filled with light and tragedy. This is a sad and lovely novel from a talented new writer."
The Observer
"In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two of the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both."
The Daily Mail
“A jewel of a book.”
Grazia
“This superb first novel is about fathers and sons, and the forces that turn men brutish.”
The Times
"This is a young writer with talent to burn."
The Independent