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Narrator

John Derum

John Derum has been acting, writing and directing for theatre and television since his teenage years. He has performed More Than a Sentimental Bloke, his tribute to C.J. Dennis, more than 500 times around Australia. He has recorded the audiobooks of the Joseph Furphy classic novels, Such Is Life, Rigby’s Romance and The Buln-Buln and the Brolga. In 2019, John was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant contribution to the performing arts and the community.

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Title:

The Great World (MP3)

Written by:

David Malouf 

Read by:

John Derum 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

12 hours 56 minutes 

MP3 size:

562 MB 

Published:

May 28 2019 

Available Date:

May 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489498335 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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A novel of intense perception and formidable power from one of Australia's most celebrated authors.

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles – from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In The Great World, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But The Great World is more than a novel of war. Ranging over 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.

'It is this characteristic opposition which makes The Great World a truthful portrait of Australia. Sufferings and wrongs abound, but there is no dullness.'
The Independent

'... a novel of genuinely epic scope.'
Publishers Weekly