by Murray Bail · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781875847945
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«Eucalyptus» is the novel by Australian writer Murray Bail, published by Text Publishing Company in paperback (264 pages, in English).
On a property in western New South Wales, widower Holland cultivates hundreds of eucalyptus varieties and offers his daughter Ellen's hand to the man who can name them all. After successive suitors fail, a stranger arrives who tells a story about each tree. The novel interweaves love, storytelling and nature.
Winner in 1999 of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs, with a love story that intersects with 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.
