Title The mountain / Drusilla Modjeska

Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2012

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MELB	827.03 M6924 A6/M		AVAILABLE

Description 432 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm regular print Summary In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in the mountains. Drusilla Modjeska's sweeping novel takes us deep into this fascinating, complex country, whose culture and people cannot escape the march of modernity that threatens to overwhelm them. It is a riveting story of love, loss, grief and betrayal Analysis Australian Notes N copy signed and inscribed by the author, 26 September 2013. ANL Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2013 shortlist Subject Documentary film producers and directors -- Fiction Domestic fiction, Australian English -- Papua New Guinea -- Fiction. Indigenous peoples -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Motion picture producers and directors -- Papua New Guinea -- Fiction. Mountains -- Fiction. Relationships -- Fiction Villages -- Papua New Guinea -- Fiction. Papua New Guinean fiction (English) SUBJECT Papua New Guinea http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81034915 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Domestic fiction. Novels. LC no. 2012427267 ISBN 9781741666502 (paperback)

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