Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.
is a rare bird in Australian fiction – a novel of ideas – and anyone involved in the arts “industry” will find it stimulating, provocative, and darkly funny. One strand blends satire and romance, as the director of a sci-fi TV series pursues their passion for a young lead actor, Kit, while facing ethical scruples over corporate sponsorship for the show. Another follows an anonymous radical group that strays into violence targeting “climate imperialists” and begins to fray over tactics.
What follows is an Agatha Christie-style locked-room mystery that threatens a higher body count, and doubles as a wicked satire on the foibles of the ultra-rich. Murali has written a comic crime novel that mixes elements from two popular genres into a colourful and clever detective story, full of memorably eccentric characters.tells a dark fairy tale of two sisters. Sam and Elena are two twenty-somethings stuck on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, with their dying mother.
But when she receives a letter addressing her as Kieu, Kim is sent on a journey that lays bare her Vietnamese heritage and conflict within her own family. Her grandmother is dying, and the funeral reveals estrangement between her father and uncle – two brothers who took opposite sides during the war, one supporting the Americans, the other the Vietcong.
It’s just one of the images – taken from personal experiences and numerous interviews – that give us a vivid impression of what it was to be there and “hear the wind sounding like a freight train passing directly overhead”.
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