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The arrival of a young woman on a remote family farm in outback Australia turns the lives of its inhabitants upside down, a situation that becomes further complicated by her subsequent disappearance, leaving behind only a bloodied dress, sparking the young heir to the farm to undertake an epic odyssey in search of the truth. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
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"Beautiful writing meets cannily imagined myths. Meehan is a born storyteller and this is a fantastic debut novel." (Marie Claire)
"It is not too much to say that this novel is a tour de force." (Weekend Australian)
On the edge of the salt lakes in the harsh Mallee country of north-west Victoria in the 1920s live isolated families battling with fate to scrape out an existence. There are few travellers until a girl turns up out of nowhere. Eileen.
Eager for mischief and hungry for attention, Eileen arrives to captivate them all until, in another cloud of mystery, she disappears. What follows is the epic and incredible odyssey of the boy who flees in search of her. Compelled by the mystery his journey takes him across the haunting landscape of the Australian outback.
In the tradition of William Faulkner The Salt of Broken Tears is an astounding achievement. Lyrical and intense, it is at once a dark thriller and a meditation on imagination and desire, evoking the mythic beauty of the Australian landscape.
Eager for mischief and hungry for attention, Eileen arrives to captivate them all until, in another cloud of mystery, she disappears. What follows is the epic and incredible odyssey of the boy who flees in search of her. Compelled by the mystery his journey takes him across the haunting landscape of the Australian outback.
In the tradition of William Faulkner The Salt of Broken Tears is an astounding achievement. Lyrical and intense, it is at once a dark thriller and a meditation on imagination and desire, evoking the mythic beauty of the Australian landscape.
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- PublisherArcade Pub
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1559705671
- ISBN 13 9781559705677
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages297
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