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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Mark Lucas
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 13
Duration:: 15 hours 45 minutes
Published:: October 01 2019
Available Date:: October 01 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489442611
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Booker Prize-winning author

Peter Carey hilariously conjures up dystopia in his picaresque The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith.

‘My name is Tristan Smith. I was born in Chemin Rouge in Efica – which is to say as much to you, I bet, if I declared I was from the moon.’ Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life. Here, for the first time, is the truth about him, from his birth in the Republic of Efica in the year 371 to the present day. When he goes on trial for multiple offences in Voorstand, a nation of rampaging global dominance, Tristan must plead his case to the very culture that has done for his own. Peter Carey's piercing allegory of imperialism is unmatched for originality and inventiveness.

'Irresistible ... intimate and theatrical ... supple and surprising ... We're in the hands of a master storyteller.'
Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries

'Carey has vaulted to the top ranks of writers in the English-speaking world ... Tristan has an appeal that transcends geography.'
Newsday