by Alex Miller · Allen & Unwin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781742373669
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«Lovesong» is Alex Miller's literary fiction novel, published in 2010 by Allen & Unwin in paperback (354 pages, in English).
John Patterner, an Australian tourist, steps into a small Tunisian café in Paris to shelter from a storm and meets Sabiha, the owner's niece. That encounter will mark him forever. Years later, settled in Melbourne, John tells his story to Ken, an elderly writer, and that confession becomes a novel about love, desire and the fragility of a relationship between two cultures.
In 2010 it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and won The Age Book of the Year.
For readers of literary and romantic fiction, and for book clubs looking for stories about love and encounters between cultures.
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.
