David Malouf

A cast of wildly different characters, united by a love of birds, come together on the coast of Australia in 1914....

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

In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One is to be hanged at dawn; the other has been sent to supervise the hanging.... 

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow....

Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature.... 

In the 1840s, a ship's boy, cast ashore in northern Australia, is taken in by Aborigines. 16 years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors....