Avenue of Eternal Peace

Jose, Nicholas

Penguin Putnam~trade

The rose crossing

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Penguin

In the scarred landscape of contemporary Australia, eight childhood friends seek their individual destinies: Alex, ambitious but melancholy; Cleve, snatched by the state from his Aboriginal parents; Danny, his twin brother, who has spent more of his life in custody than free; Elspeth, the heiress seeking enlightenment; Jane, passionately committed to her art; Josie, dedicated to doing good; Wendy, in search of fun; and Ziggy, the brilliant actor. These are the custodians, but of what, and of whom? From the 1950s through the 1980s; from the outback to the heights of Manhattan's art world to the London stage; from the tropical Queensland to Mao's China. . . such is the scope of The Custodians. It is at once a startling and an often comical novel about friendship, love, and betrayal; and an astounding story of struggle and history - a history which these eight characters must both embrace and transcend if they are to find reconciliation with the land to which they belong, but which does not belong to them.

The Custodians

St.Martin's Press

The Custodians (Hb)

Contemporary

Picador

Against the scarred landscape of contemporary Australia, eight childhood friends seek their individual destinies: Alex, ambitious but melancholy; Cleve, snatched by the state from his parents; Danny, his twin brother, who has spent more of his life in custody than free; Elspeth, the heiress seeking enlightenment; Jane, passionately committed to her art; Josie, dedicated to doing good; Wendy, in search of fun; and Ziggy, the brilliant actor. They are the custodians, but of what, and for whom? From the 1950s to the 1980s, from the South Australian outback to Manhattan's art world and the London stage, from tropical Queensland to Mao's China, The Custodians has an extraordinary reach. It is at once a startling and often comical novel about friendship, love, and betrayal, and an astounding story of struggle and history—a history which these eight characters must both embrace and transcend if they are to find reconciliation with the land to which they belong, but which does not belong to them. The Custodians is a triumph of storytelling, a sharp and moving epic from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.

Custodians, The

Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited

Literary

Ideas of the Restoration in English Literature, 1660-71

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Wally Frith, an Australian cancer specialist, heads for China to accept a post at Peking Union Medical College, but his immersion in the culture of Beijing is overshadowed by the disappearance of Professor Hsu Chien Lung, a respected cancer researcher from the medical college

Avenue of Eternal Peace: 2

Dutton Adult

Set in contemporary Shanghai, this work tells the story of Shen, a Chinese art dealer and Ruth a young Australian artist. Their obsessive love is mirrored in an antique manuscript, and when Ruth falls prey to a terminal illness Shen embarks on a quest for the missing chapters.

Red Thread

Faber&Faber

An elegant and multi-layered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is rich, moving and unforgettable. Set in contemporary Shanghai, it is the story of an intense passion between Shen, a Chinese art dealer, and Ruth, a young Australian woman. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored in a rare Chinese manuscript which is nearly two hundred years old and of which the last two chapters have never been found. When Ruth falls prey to a terminal illness, Shen embarks on a desperate quest for the missing chapters hoping somehow to find a cure for the disease. But time is running out ...

The Red Thread

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