The Sunken Road

Garry Disher

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Text Publishing Company
04 February 2020

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city’s creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. In time, the boy will have a daughter: the wilful auburn-haired Anna Tolley.

Nominated on its original 1996 release for the Man Booker Prize, The Sunken Road is Garry Disher’s proudest achievement. This moving, powerful novel set in the wheat and wool country of mid-north South Australia is at once the story of a region, a town and a people—and of one of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction.

By: Garry Disher
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 356g
ISBN: 9781922268532
ISBN 10: 1922268534
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Garry Disher has published fifty titles across multiple genres. His last standalone novel, Bitter Wash Road, won the 2016 German Crime Prize, a prize he had previously won twice. When honoured with last year's Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement award, he was described by the Australian Crime Writers Association as 'a giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters'.

Reviews for The Sunken Road

'One of the most original, vibrant, compelling Australian novels' * Sydney Morning Herald * 'A modern classic' * Options * 'Astoundingly original' * The Mail on Sunday *