Belomor

Author: Nicolas Rothwell

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  • : 29.99 AUD
  • : 9781922079749
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
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  • : May 2013
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
  • : 29.99
  • : January 2013
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  • : Nicolas Rothwell
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : 256
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Barcode 9781922079749
9781922079749

Description

A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet-where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space, and looks into the murk and sediment of herself. Four chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds. In this entrancing new book from one of our most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in remote Australia, snake hunters, opal miners and desert magic healers. Belomor is a meditation on time, and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it.

Reviews

'Masterful and unforgettable.' Pico Iyer 'A caster of spells.' Australian Book Review 'Rothwell's calm wondering...left me with a feeling of enchantment.' Robert Dessaix