The Golden Age: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609453328 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joan London is a bookseller and author living in Perth. She is the author of two short story collections, Sister Ships, which won The Age Book of the Year award, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award as well as the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction, and three novels, Gilgamesh, The Good Parents, and The G
Suzanne Harris said strongly recommended. moving and amusing - great to read about my home town for once. It was so familiar and its nuances caught so well. I loved the evocation of the trauma and stories people bring with them to Perth and how they deal with their ghosts and memories. Just great to read. Five Stars Loved travelling through the 1950s with an illness only heard about never seen. Five Stars Amazon Customer A sensitive beautifully written book
Frank’s parents, transplants to Australia from a war-torn Europe, are isolated newcomers in a country that they do not love and that does not seem to love them. Elsa’s mother Margaret, who has given up everything to be a perfect mother, must reconcile her hopes and dreams with her daughter’s sickness. With tenderness and humor, The Golden Age tells a deeply moving story about illness and recovery. But her husband, Meyer, slowly begins to free himself from the past and integrate into a new society. He is sent to a sprawling children’s hospital called The Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a girl who radiates pure light. Frank’s mother Ida, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home. Meanwhile, Frank and Elsa’s parents must cope with their changing realities. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian jews, escape the perils of World War II to the safety of Australia in the 1940s. Winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Award for FictionJoan London, author
"—Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sydney Review of BooksPraise for Joan London"Gilgamesh captures the romance of wanderlust like no other novel I have read."—Maureen Freely, The Guardian "The Good Parents a dark and lovely work is both a novel of ideas and one of emotionsthe mystery of enthrallment only deepens, irradiated by London's gorgeous prose."—Roxana Robinson, The New York Times"London's prose is a seamlessly shifting blend of poetry, pathos, and humor."—The Washington Post. It is a quiet, elegiac story of love and renewal and liberation written in crisp prose"—Forward"The Golden A