Murray Bail est un auteur australien célèbre pour ses romans, nouvelles et essais. Ses contributions littéraires explorent les nuances de l'identité et du paysage australiens, en utilisant une voix narrative distinctive et une observation pointue. L'écriture de Bail se caractérise par sa prose précise et sa capacité à distiller des thèmes complexes en explorations résonnantes de la culture et de l'expérience humaine. Il offre aux lecteurs une lentille unique pour comprendre la condition australienne.
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the species of the eucalypt, down to the last tree.
Thirteen men and women on a package tour find unexpected adventures in their travels around the world
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have tried Berlin. But a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities for Delage - connections, her daughter Elisabeth, and an avant garde composer. Now travelling home, on a container ship, with Elisabeth, the real story is about to begin. The Voyage is a masterly novel by a great writer at the peak of his powers.