The Mountain (novel)

The Mountain
Author Drusilla Modjeska
Country Australia
Language English
Genre novel
Publisher Vintage, Australia
Publication date
2012
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 432
ISBN 9781741666502
Preceded by The Orchard

The Mountain (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award.

Plot summary

The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a PNG university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia.

Reviews

Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire."[1] Eleanor Limprecht in the Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things.[2]

Awards and nominations

References

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