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The Ancestor Game Alex Miller

The Ancestor Game By Alex Miller

The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller


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Summary

An enthralling journey into the ancestral dreams and present dilemmas of a rich cast of characters.

The Ancestor Game Summary

The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller

Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia.

Steven left England for Australia as a young man and his one attempt at returning is unsuccessful. August Spiess, although he speaks frequently of returning to his native Hamburg, fails to make the journey, as does his daughter Gertrude. Lang Tzu's very name defines his fate: two characters which in Mandarin signify the son who goes away.

The 'game', however, does have winners. For despite their yearnings for the home of their ancestral dreams, a desire to belong somewhere that is truly their own, none of Miller's characters leaves Australia, and each in their own way comes to see that to be at home in exile may be a defining paradox of the European Australian condition: the paradox of belonging and estrangement that perhaps lies uneasily at the heart of all European cultures.

The Ancestor Game Reviews

A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty. -- Michael Ondaatje
Extraordinary fictional portraits of China and Australia. * New York Times Book Review *

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. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.

Table of Contents

BOOK ONE1 Death of the Father2 Only Children3 The Lotus and the Phoenix4 The Winter Visitor5 No Ordinary Child6 Portraits7 The Mother: Homecoming, Men, The Campaign, Signs8 An Interlude in the Garden9 A Memoir of DisplacementBOOK TWO10 The Entrance to the Other-World11 Reflections From the Gazebo: Thirty-Four Days, War, Present Reality, The Gift of Death, Victoria, Into Regions of Uncertainty12 The Lovers13The Little Red Doorway

Additional information

GOR002259981
9781741142266
1741142261
The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Allen & Unwin
20030901
312
Winner of Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012 (Australia)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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