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The Last Sky ebook
by Alice Nelson
- About the Book
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The Last Sky recounts the story of Maya Wise – a young wife alone in Hong Kong. British rule is coming to an end and so is Maya’s marriage. She drifts, wandering aimlessly through the crowded city streets. Captivated by an elderly Chinese man and his caged nightingale, she follows him home. But Ken Tiger is a man with a past. As Maya draws out his tale of lost love in wartime Shanghai, she pieces together other stories, other histories that will help her to imagine a new life for herself.
The Sydney Morning Herald described Nelson’s language as displaying ‘real lyrical beauty’. The Weekend Australian said the book was ‘partly a haunting and uneasy love story, partly a subtle exploration of cultural and political tensions’.
- Categories
- ebooks, Adult Fiction, Award Winning
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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Winner, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist, 2009; Winner, T A G Hungerford Award, 2006; Short listed, The Australian / Vogel Award, 2006.
- ISBN13
- 9781921696749
- HB/PB
- Ebook
- Format
- Ebook
- Pages
- 254
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things