by Peter Carey · Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780307263728
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«His Illegal Self» is the novel by Peter Carey, published by Knopf in hardback, with 288 pages, in English.
A seven-year-old boy, Che, grows up isolated in New York with his grandmother while waiting for his parents, radical student activists from Harvard whom he has never met. When a woman claims to be his mother, Che flees with her to a hippie commune in the Queensland jungle. There he must discover who his real mother is and whether the man he met was his father.
The ISBN corresponds to the first US edition, published in 2008; the cover notes that Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs: a story about identity and family set against the backdrop of 1960s activism.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
