by Alex Miller · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340766675
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«Conditions of Faith» is the novel by Alex Miller published by Sceptre in paperback (406 pages, in English).
Emily Stanton, newly graduated and on the threshold of life in 1920s Melbourne, marries a Franco-Scottish engineer and settles in Paris; but neither marriage nor impending motherhood fulfils her quest for self-realisation, and a journey of self-discovery will take her to Tunis, where Emily must choose between family and career.
Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2001 and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award that same year.
For fans of literary and historical fiction with a female protagonist; a regular title in reading groups.
Alexander McPhee Miller is one of Australia's most distinguished writers. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He won the overall award for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for The Ancestor Game in 1993. He is twice winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and for Lovesong in 2011. In recognition of his impressive body of work and in particular for his novel Autumn Laing he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012.
