Author:David Malouf
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 seventy 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.
—— IndependentAn example of how fiction may still be individual, honest and humanly truthful. Malouf's great talent is precisely for unmasking the epic or world-historical - for finding the human backing to history's all reflecting mirror
—— The TimesLucid and accessible. His most ambitious book so far
—— GuardianA truthful portait of Australia
—— Independent on SundayA book of great stature with moral force and moral truth
—— Times Literary Supplement'A superb fictional debut, impossible to read without grinning or grimacing'
—— Mark Sanderson , Time Out'Superb short stories...Coen's pitch-perfect ear for American demotic is on proud display. His fascination with people who talk but never listen - and the lingustic impasse that results when they get together - is almost Beckettian'
—— Tom Shone , Evening Standard
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