by Murray Bail · Harvill Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860464959
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«Eucalyptus» is the contemporary novel by Murray Bail, published by Harvill Pr in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Holland lives with his daughter Ellen on a property in New South Wales, where he cultivates hundreds of eucalyptus species. When Ellen grows up, her father promises her hand to anyone able to name all those species. The novel interweaves courtship with the Australian landscape and botany.
It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1999; this edition was published in May 1999.
For readers of literary and romantic fiction, especially interested in nature and the Australian landscape.
Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. In 1980 he shared the Age Book of the Year award for his novel Homesickness.
