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When his dog is lost somewhere in the bush, Indian-Australian professor Tom Loxley sets aside the biography he is writing to search for his canine friend, aided by artist Nelly Zhang, a companion of questionable trustworthiness whose husband had gone missing years earlier.
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"[a] clever, engrossing novel... De Kretser's beautifully shaded book moves between modern day Australia and post-colonial India. Mysteries and love affairs are unfolded but never fully resolved, and as Tom searches for his dog, it becomes apparent that its whereabouts is only one of the puzzles in his life." -- Tina Jackson, Metro
You Must Read: `beautifully written novel about the hunt for a missing dog'
-- Sunday Times
`Confident, meticulous plotting, her strong imagination and her precise, evocative prose. Like the Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog opens up rich vistas with its central idea and introduces the reader to a world beyond its fictional frontiers.' -- Lindsay Duguid, Sunday Times
`De Kretser is writer of great power and range who must surely receive her due before too long'
-- Daily Telegraph
`Michelle de Kretser's powerful imagination transmits an extraordinarty energy to the narrative... a remarkable achievement. Fully to enjoy it requires slow and patient reading, but the effort brings ample rewards.'
-- Francis King, Literary Review
`Reading The Lost Dog one is torn between contradictory urges - to race ahead, in order to find out what happens, and to linger in admiration of de Kretser's ravishing style' -- New Statesman
`Throughout the book Michelle de Krester's powerful imagination transmits an extraordinary energy to the narrative ... a remarkable achievement' -- Literary Review
`a beautiful piece of writing - place your bets now for the Booker.' -- Kate Saunders, The Times
`a richly layered literary text' -- The Big Issue
`clear, vigorous, sensitive to mood and cadence...strongly narrative - an excellent tool for a novelist with a story to tell'
-- The Guardian
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You Must Read: `beautifully written novel about the hunt for a missing dog'
-- Sunday Times
`Confident, meticulous plotting, her strong imagination and her precise, evocative prose. Like the Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog opens up rich vistas with its central idea and introduces the reader to a world beyond its fictional frontiers.' -- Lindsay Duguid, Sunday Times
`De Kretser is writer of great power and range who must surely receive her due before too long'
-- Daily Telegraph
`Michelle de Kretser's powerful imagination transmits an extraordinarty energy to the narrative... a remarkable achievement. Fully to enjoy it requires slow and patient reading, but the effort brings ample rewards.'
-- Francis King, Literary Review
`Reading The Lost Dog one is torn between contradictory urges - to race ahead, in order to find out what happens, and to linger in admiration of de Kretser's ravishing style' -- New Statesman
`Throughout the book Michelle de Krester's powerful imagination transmits an extraordinary energy to the narrative ... a remarkable achievement' -- Literary Review
`a beautiful piece of writing - place your bets now for the Booker.' -- Kate Saunders, The Times
`a richly layered literary text' -- The Big Issue
`clear, vigorous, sensitive to mood and cadence...strongly narrative - an excellent tool for a novelist with a story to tell'
-- The Guardian
An impressive, electrifying novel novel by one of Australia's most significant young writers, winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award for her previous novel, and a major international talent.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 031600183X
- ISBN 13 9780316001830
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages326
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