His Illegal Self

The latest novel now in paperback from the esteemed Australian writer whotwice won the Booker Prize for Oscar Lucinda and True History Of The KellyGang. Che is... » 

The latest novel now in paperback from the esteemed Australian writer whotwice won the Booker Prize for Oscar Lucinda and True History Of The KellyGang. Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother but hedreams of his parents radical Harvard students in the 1960s. Soon he isoutlaw pitched on a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle oftropical Queensland. A richly absorbing novel which can be relished for thebeauties of its prose and the pertinence of its themes as well as for theprogressively taut pull that it exerts on the emotions Daily Telegraph «