Journey to the Stone Country
by Miller Alex (9781742373690)

Special edition of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award winner, published to commemorate Allen + Unwin's 20th birthday celebrations. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation. WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD

Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim that he holds the key to her future, Annabelle sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads back to her childhood and into the Jangga's ancient heartland, where their grandparents' lives begin to yield secrets that will challenge the possibility of their happiness together. Can their love grow, or even survive, with the terrible knowledge that comes into their possession at the end of their journey?

With the consummate artistry of a novelist working at the height of his powers, Miller convinces us that the stone country is not only a remote and exotic location in North Queensland, but is also an unvisited place within each of us. Journey to the Stone Country confirms Miller's reputation as one of Australia's most intelligent and uncompromising writers.

'Miller's fiction has a mystifying power that is always far more than the sum of its parts. . . his footsteps - softly, deftly, steadily - take you places you may not have been, and their sound resonates for a long time.' Andrea Stretton, The Sydney Morning Herald

'A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs.

COLLECTORS EDITION 500 RUN, CLOTH BINDING.

Awards:
Winner, The Miles Franklin Award 2003
Winner, State Library of Tasmania People's Choice Award, 2005
Shortlisted, Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize, 2005
Shortlisted, Festival Awards for Literature (SA), Fiction, 2004
Shortlisted, 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction
Shortlisted, The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction, 2003
Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award 2002

About Alex Miller
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. Conditions of Faith, his fifth novel, was published in 2000 and won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the 2001 NSW Premiers Literary Awards. It was also nominated for the Dublin IMPAC International Literature Award, shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award in 2000, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award in 2001. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. Miller's eighth novel, Landscape of Farewell, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. Lovesong is currently longlisted for the 2010 Miles Franklin Award.

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