The Mountain (novel)
Author | Drusilla Modjeska |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | novel |
Publisher | Vintage, Australia |
Publication date | 2012 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 432 |
ISBN | 9781741666502 |
Preceded by | The Orchard |
The Mountain (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award.
Plot summary[edit]
The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a PNG university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia.
Reviews[edit]
Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire."[1] Eleanor Limprecht in the Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things.[2]
Awards and nominations[edit]
- 2013 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
- 2013 longlisted ALS Gold Medal
- 2013 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2014 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award