Murray Bail
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Murray Bail has won numerous prizes for his novels -- Eucalyptus, Homesickness, and Holden's Performance -- including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Eucalyptus. He lives in Sydney
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- 1941-09-22
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- male
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- Australien
- Geburtsort
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australien
- Wohnorte
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australien
Sydney, New South Wales, Australien - Berufe
- novelist
short-story writer
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This whole novel feels like a parable. It has a dreamy air of magical realism, though really there are no magical elements, maybe a few slightly surreal things happen in the stories that are told. In some parts the style definitely reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Márquez. I thought at first I wouldn’t like this book- it feels like the characters are all held at arm’s length, you never really sink into anything as a reader. The storyline flits back and forth through the multitude of smaller stories- rather like the incomplete shade cast by a eucalyptus, I suppose. I was going to ditch it after the first few chapters but kept going and became more intrigued to see how it ends. It’s one I think worth a re-read someday. There is plenty of information on the eucalyptus trees themselves in the pages, the characteristics of their leaves, what type of soil the different species like, the strength of their timber and its uses, etc. Readers not much interested in plants might find this tedious, but I kind of liked it.
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