Black rock white city / A.S. Patrić.
Publication details: Australia : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2015.Description: 248 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781921924835
- 1921924837
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Children -- Death -- Fiction
- Cleaning personnel -- Fiction
- War stories
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Refugees -- Australia -- Fiction
- War -- Fiction
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996 -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Victoria) -- Fiction
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996 -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.3.P287 B53 2015
- 2016 Shortlist Miles Franklin Award.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | PAT | Available | 058880 |
Total reserves: 0
Black rock white city is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge the poetry of the past. He and his wife Suzana were forced to flee Sarajevo and the death of their children.
2016 Shortlist Miles Franklin Award.