Books like Riders in the Chariot
Four outsiders in a Sydney suburb, an eccentric heiress, a Jewish refugee, a laundress and an Aboriginal painter, are joined by a shared vision and by the cruelty of their neighbours.
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Voss
In Sydney in 1845, Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer preparing to cross the continent, meets Laura Trevelyan, the merchant's niece who understands him as no one else does.
O the Chimneys
Poems and verse dramas from Sachs's years in Swedish exile, mourning the Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Fatelessness
György Köves, a fourteen-year-old Budapest Jew, is taken off a bus in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and tells it all in a flat, almost uncomprehending voice.
A Fringe of Leaves
In 1836, Ellen Roxburgh, a Cornish farm girl married into the English gentry, is shipwrecked off the Queensland coast and taken in by an Aboriginal tribe.
Fugitive Pieces
Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old Jewish boy hiding in the mud of a Polish town after his family is murdered, is found by Athos, a Greek geologist, who smuggles him to the island of Zakynthos.
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Artur Sammler, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by climbing out of a mass grave, now in his seventies, watches the Upper West Side of the late 1960s through one good eye.
To the Islands
Heriot, an ageing missionary on a mission in the far north-west of Western Australia, believes he has killed a man in a rage, and walks out into the wilderness with an Aboriginal companion, Justin, towards the islands of the dead.
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
A Hungarian writer who survived Auschwitz explains, in one long monologue, why he refused to have a child.
Austerlitz
A narrator meets Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian, in the waiting room of Antwerp's railway station, and over chance meetings across thirty years hears him piece together a childhood he was cut off from.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.