The Last Sky – Book Club Edition

by Alice Nelson

Price $24.95

About the Book

This special, book club edition of award-winning author Alice Nelson’s The Last Sky recounts the story of Maya Wise – a young wife alone in Hong Kong.

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’.

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.

Categories

Adult Fiction, Award Winning, New Releases

Publication Year

2010

Edition

2

Publisher

Fremantle Press

Awards

Winner, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year, 2009
Short listed, Barbara Jefferis Award for Literature, 2009
Winner, T A G Hungerford Award, 2006
Short listed, The Australian / Vogel Award, 2004

ISBN13

978 192 136 1920

HB/PB

Paperback

Format

B Format (192mm x 128mm)

Pages

256

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