Peter Carey

True history of the Kelly Gang

Oscar and Lucinda

Accompanying the arrogant poet, John Slater, to Malaysia, London editor Sarah Wode-Douglass finds herself obsessively drawn to a mysterious manuscript that bears a legacy of fraud and danger.

A Novel

My Life as a Fake

Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new experiment, America? A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art. Web site: http://petercareybooks.com/

Parrot and Olivier in America

Londres, 1837. Jack Maggs, déporté comme criminel en Australie pendant de longues années, est de retour. Malgré son passé mystérieux, il réussit à se faire engager comme valet chez Percy Buckle, un riche commerçant qui pratique avec quelques amis des séances de magnétisme. Parmi eux se trouve Tobias Oates, jeune écrivain à succès obsédé par la notion de criminalité. Craignant qu'ils ne divulguent son passé honteux, en particulier auprès de Mercy Larkin, la femme de chambre dont il est amoureux, Jack Maggs les menace sans pour autant réussir à se dégager de leurs pouvoirs hypnotiques. Quels sont les liens entre Maggs et le jeune dandy Henry Philips, propriétaire invisible de la maison voisine ? Qu'est-ce que le ténébreux Maggs écrit nuit après nuit, caché dans la maison inexplicablement vide de Philips ? De mystère en mystère, de péripétie en péripétie, après d'innombrables rebondissements dignes d'un feuilleton de maître, Maggs réussira pour finir à partir en Australie avec sa dulcinée. Et Tobias Oates publiera en 1860 La Mort de Jack Maggs, après la mort justement de celui qui inspira ce livre. Ce roman imaginatif et audacieux est un hommage vibrant à l'œuvre de Dickens, Les Grandes Espérances. Peter Carey déploie ici tout son art de romancier pour animer des personnages énigmatiques emportés dans des aventures truculentes, souvent mélodramatiques, nourries de secrets, de tricheries, d'amour et de possession.

Jack Maggs

The Booker Prize-winning author describes how his shy young son's fascination with Japanese manga and anime led father and son on an odyssey to Tokyo, where they discover the intricacies of modern-day Japanese culture, from shitamachi and the Internet tokabuki and the samurai.

A Father's Journey with His Son

Wrong about Japan

Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

A Long Way From Home

Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig works in solitude to restore a 19th-century automaton and finds comfort in the journals of its adventurous commissioner. By the two-time Man Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda. 50,000 first printing.

The Chemistry of Tears

CARLOS VAZ MARQUES

Este livro traz em si a urgência da reportagem e a capacidade de observação do jornalismo. Revela-nos aquilo a que muita gente ainda não terá dado a atenção necessária que há uma geração de adolescentes ocidentais a crescer, nesta primeira década do século XXI, sob a influência da cultura popular japonesa. O autor conduz o filho e é conduzido (levando-nos a nós também nessa viagem) pelos labirintos de uma cultura cheia de códigos mais ou menos impenetráveis para um estrangeiro. Uma cultura bem mais transparente para um adolescente familiarizado com os universos da manga e do anime do que para um adulto à procura de uma chave que se revela quase sempre 'lost in translation'.

COM O SEU FILHO AO PAIS DA MANGA E DO ANIME

JAPAO E UM LUGAR ESTRANHO, O - VIAGEM DE UM PAI

Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.

Amnesia

Reduced to living in a remote country house and serving as caretaker for his volatile and childlike brother Hugh, Michael "Butcher" Boone, a once-famous painter, finds his life changed by the arrival of an enigmatic young woman named Marlene.

A Love Story

Theft

Brought up in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, a precocious seven-year-old boy, yearns for his parents, radical activists wanted by the FBI, until one afternoon, a woman claiming to be his mother arrives to help him escape, sending him on a bizarre odyssey that leads him to confront his life, his family, and his identity. 60,000 first printing.

His Illegal Self

Bliss

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Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form.The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.

Collected Stories

A freak, Tristan Smith, the child of a famous actress and an unknown father, sets out to transform himself and his life, following a circuitous path that leads, ultimately, to the Sirkus, an immensely popular form of entertainment. 30,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Handan Saraç

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Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption.

The Fat Man in History and Other Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with the title story wondering how, were some post-Marxist utopia to declare obesity counter-revolutionary, a household of fat men would strike back. Those from War Crimes are all in one way or another about power - those who wield it, those who want it, and those who recall either its dazzling exhilaration or degradation.

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