Frank Delage, a middle-aged Australian, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. He has invented a revolutionary piano and means to market it to the grand old world of classical music. A chance meeting with one Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities - a soiree, an introduction to her daughter Elisabeth, dinner with an avant-garde composer.

But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, he takes a slow boat home to the southern hemisphere. As it meanders through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, he is afforded ample time to reflect on tensions between the old world and the new. And, for all his travails, he is not going home empty-handed...

About the Author
Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, winning a number of major awards.

Reviews
'His works are to be savoured for their elegant artifice ... This is particularly true of The Voyage' Andrew Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald. * Sydney Morning Herald *
'This masterful concoction engages, excites and perturbs with singular virtuosity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. * Irish Times *
'One reads in a permanent faint fever, on tenterhooks, never knowing quite where a sentence or a paragraph may veer off to' John Banville. * John Banville *
'We won't see a finer piece of fiction in the longest while' Peter Craven, Melbourne Age. * Melbourne Age *
'Worthy of Henry James ... Deserves to be Booker nominated' Steve Barfield, The Lady. * Lady *



Book Information
ISBN 9781780878577
Author Murray Bail
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint MacLehose Press
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Weight(grams) 158g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 14mm