A Long Way From Home

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

El australiano Peter Carey es autor de trece novelas, entre las que destacan Oscar y Lucinda (Alfaguara), La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly (El Aleph Editores), Mi vida de farsante (Random House), El embaucador (Alfaguara), La naturaleza de las lágrimas (Alfaguara). Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Booker y sus otros premios incluyen el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth y el Premio Literario Miles Franklin.