The Great World

The Great World
First edition
AuthorDavid Malouf
LanguageEnglish
PublisherChatto & Windus (UK)
Publication date
1990
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePaperback
Pages332 pp
ISBN0-7011-3415-1
OCLC22953897
823 20
LC ClassPR9619.3.M265 G74 1990
Preceded byHarland's Half Acre 
Followed byRemembering Babylon 

The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.[1]

Synopsis

It is an epic novel telling the story of two Australians during the turmoil of World War I; and their imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II.

Critical reception

Marion Halligan in The Canberra Times noted that a "paradox that runs through the novel is the idea of weight, and of lightness. The weight of gravity that keeps you in place and makes you belong, the weight of responsibility, of experience as a load of ballast taken on, the mysterious lightness of an unborn baby that seems to offer his mother her true weight in the world, or the premonition of death that combines bird-like flight with the plummeting of a stone."[2]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Austlit - The Great World by David Malouf". Austlit. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  2. ^ ""Transcendent smallness"". The Canberra Times, 24 February 1990, p23. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Previous award winners by category". Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  4. ^ "David Malouf Overview". Archived from the original on 21 December 2007.
  5. ^ ""Malouf's sixth novel wins Miles Franklin award"". The Canberra Times, 26 June 1991, p5. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007.
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