Inland is a compact story or group of stories, each nested within another, nonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography, where the interior of Australia, the Midwestern prairie, and...

This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classics Border Districts...

Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and...

Originally published from 1985 to 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.While the Australian master Gerald Murnane is best...

A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime...

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane – perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose – began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He...

Con prefazione di Ben Lerner«Autori come J.M. Coetzee, Teju Cole e Ben Lerner sono suoi ferventi ammiratori. [...] È in pole position, tra gli australiani, per il Nobel». La Lettura del Corriere della...

A Bassett, polverosa cittadina dell’interno australiano, Clement Killeaton è impegnato a crescere. Sono i tardi anni Quaranta e sul retro del cortile della sua casa, sotto le tamerici, tutto è pronto...