Description
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020 An exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games
About the Author
Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. Anna's writing has been published in The Monthly, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship.
Reviews
When it comes to the Australian writer Anna Krien's debut novel, Act of Grace, 'ambitious' feels like an understatement . . . A potent study of power . . . she deftly knits together time periods and places. Her characters, though, are her greatest achievement . . . In placing these complicated, vulnerable characters together, Krien crosses cultural and generational divides to dazzling effect. -- Lucy Knight * Sunday Times *
It's startling to read a first novel that gathers so much and travels so far, yet flows so effortlessly. Krien writes brilliantly, channelling indelible images ... Krien resists easy conclusions, following her flawed characters with sharp, sympathetic eyes, before leaving them without fanfare, still compromised and still uncertain, but with the chance to rework the angry echoes of the past into a song of their own. * Guardian *
The wisdom and balance of Krien's writing captivates * Daily Telegraph *
Krien's first novel is a high-wire performance. With its vast historical rigging, epic scope, ethical complexity, and kaleidoscopic view, Act of Grace is enormously ambitious. The reader watches, breath held, as the novel unspools, but Krien's step is sure, and she does not fall. * Australian Book Review *
One of this country's leading voices * The Saturday Paper *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788164214
Author Anna Krien
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 477g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 144mm * 31mm