Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. But as they trawl from country to country, through cities and round ever more obscure museums they find nothing as they expect it, least of all themselves. Homesickness is an enchanting novel: a wry, witty look at the ways people interact, a catalogue of comic digressions and tantalising information in which the world becomes a museum with no exhibit more bizarre than human nature itself.

About the Author
Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941, and now lives in Sydney. He is the author of three novels and a book of short stories, The Drover's Wife and Other Stories. Homesickness, his first novel, won the National Book Award for Australian Literature and the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award. His subsequent novel, Holden's Performance, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. Eucalyptus, which was published by Harvill in 1998, was the winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Reviews
Bizarre, playful and hilarious * Observer *
Murray Bail is the warmest and most quick-witted of storytellers -- Michael Ondaatje
It's a pleasure simply to be immersed in Bail's caprice-prone mind -- Michael Upchurch * New York Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9781860466830
Author Murray Bail
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint The Harvill Press
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 306g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 25mm