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The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska

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May 2012, no. 341

The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska

Vintage, $32.95 pb, 464 pp, 9781741666502

The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska

by
May 2012, no. 341

Papua New Guinea doesn’t loom large in Australian literature. As Nicholas Jose says, our ‘writers have not much looked in that direction for material or inspiration’. Drusilla Modjeska is thus entering relatively new territory for Australian fiction with an ambitious epic set in PNG. It is also a new venture for her: Poppy (1990), her only previous ‘novel’, won two non-fiction awards. She has said that ‘as neither term seemed right, I opted for both’ – autobiography and fiction.

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Mountain' by Drusilla Modjeska

The Mountain

by Drusilla Modjeska

Vintage, $32.95 pb, 464 pp, 9781741666502

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