No One

Before dawn on a Monday, near Redfern Station in Sydney, a driver feels something strike his car. When he circles back, nobody is there, but high on the door is a dent only a body could have made, and something like blood. Nineteen years on, the unnamed narrator tells of his hunt for the person he may have struck. It leads to a scar-faced woman he calls the Poetess, and together they drift through emergency wards, parks, bars and trains. Fragments of his own rootless past, from a refugee family in Istanbul to foster care across Australia, run through a tale of guilt for wrongs nobody admits to, and of the country's unhealed history with its First Peoples.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

157 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2019

ISBN

9781760800291 (UWA Publishing, Australia)