{"product_id":"9781921961953","title":"Belomor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegiac and seductive, \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space, and looks into the murk and sediment of herself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this entrancing new book from one of our most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in remote Australia, snake hunters, opal miners and desert magic healers. \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on time, and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicolas Rothwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Darwin, and is the \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e's roving northern correspondent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Melancholy, singular, exhilarating, \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a haunted history of the world.' Delia Falconer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e is exhilarating, challenging and draining...The existence of a final page, a final sentence, presupposes some sort of climax, but \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e would be better suited to looping back and beginning all over again.' \u003ci\u003eAdelaide Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Rothwell's writing resists easy description. He roams the borderlands between memoir and fiction and insinuates himself into gaps between time and place...His prose is lush and often beautiful.' \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell's ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged.' \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Thoughout these pages, Rothwell proves adept at navigating the cross-currents of European cultural history. Nevertheless, the main emphasis of \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e falls elsewhere, on the physical, cultural and spiritual complexion of a seemingly very different world: the vast, enigmatic spaces of the north of Australia that Rothwell has traversed for many years. This frequently oblique but almost always compelling book seeks to reconcile those apparently opposed worlds, tracing subtle but significant affinities between Europe's historically determined self-consciousness and what might be called the Dreamtime.' \u003ci\u003eSaturday Age, Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A peculiar and bewitching work of Australian literature...a hymn of praise to the north and its inhabitants.' \u003ci\u003eHerald Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Rothwell's calm wondering...left me with a feeling of enchantment.' Robert Dessaix \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e'Spanning continents and decades, this is a work that defies literary conventions; seamlessly moving between fact and fiction, memoir and essay, history and digressive conversation...it also poses critical questions about the present and future of our culture that will stay with readers long after they finish this book.' Bill Godber, Managing Director Turnaround UK\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166125441264,"sku":"9781921961953","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961953_p0.jpg?v=1763631833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961953","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}